WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: * * * Updated planning effort will guide additional solar energy development on public lands * * * The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced its proposed roadmap for solar energy development on public lands, designed to expand efficient and environmentally responsible solar project permitting on public lands across the West. Today's release of the  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: The Department of Defense announced today a $6.56 million award via the Defense Production Act Investment (DPAI) office to Montana Technological University (Montana Tech), located in Butte, Montana. The award will fund the development and delivery of a critical workforce development program that will allow trainees to upskill their capabilities in metallurgical, geological, mining, and environmental engineering. Th  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Aug. 29, 2024, by Commissioner Mark C. Christie on a decision (Docket No. EL24-103-000) involving PSEG Renewable Transmission LLC: * * * I dissent in part from today's order, specifically from the grant of the Abandoned Plant and the Hypothetical Capital Structure Incentives for a PSEG Renewable Transmission LLC (PSEG RT) transmission project that was approved as part o  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: Earlier today, charges were unsealed against 10 members and associates of the H Block Gang (Appendix A) for drug conspiracy. Separately, nine members and associates of the Mission Hill Gang (Appendix B) were charged with engaging in financial fraud. The charges are the result of separate, multi-year investigations into gang violence in Boston an  more

GREAT FALLS, Montana, Aug. 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: A Wolf Point woman who admitted to selling methamphetamine on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was sentenced on Aug. 26 to three years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today. The defendant, Talayne Killeen Demarrias, 31, pleaded guilty in April to possession with intent t  more