UPTON, New York, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * A research team led by Brookhaven chemists has discovered a catalyst that can accelerate CO2 reduction approximately 800-fold * * * One of the most promising strategies being investigated to mitigate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) -- a byproduct of electricity and heat production, transportation, and other industries -- is the process of electrochemi more PR

UPTON, New York, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * 2024 Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship awardee Steve Farrell reflects on how humanity's challenges drive his research * * * Steve Farrell, a research associate at the Inner-Shell Spectroscopy (ISS) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's Brookhaven Nation more PR

WEST TRENTON, New Jersey, Sept. 6 -- The Delaware River Basin Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) has today appointed Kristen Bowman Kavanagh, P.E. as its next Executive Director, effective December 1, 2024. "The Delaware River Basin Commission does exceptional work managing, protecting and improving water resources in areas throughout the Delaware River Basin, including across portions of New York State that benefit from a  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: NEW YORK - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed consent decree that would pay EPA's past and future costs of cleanup at the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund Site in Old Bridge Township and Sayreville, New Jersey. The proposed consent decree requires parties identified as potentially responsible for the site, which include NL Industries, Inc. and its former cus more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: NEW YORK--Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in partnership with Treasury's Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (CI), held the sixth of ten planned events in 2024 as part of its Promoting Regional Outreach to Educate Communities on the Threat of Fentanyl (PROTECT) series of the Fin more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: A New York City man pleaded guilty today to conspiracies to engage in computer hacking, trafficking in stolen payment card numbers and money laundering. Vitalii Antonenko, 32, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge William G. Young to one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computer networks and to traffic in unauthor more PR

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: Jorge L. Rosario, age 54, of Albany, was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for robbing a marijuana dealer and brandishing a pistol in furtherance of the robbery at the dealer's Guilderland residence. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Bryan Miller, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Toba more PR

BROOKLYN, New York, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Paul Belloisi, a former American Airlines mechanic at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK Airport), was sentenced by United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry to 108 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import and possess cocaine. Belloisi was convicted in May 2023 foll more PR

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: Samuel Payano, age 24, of Amsterdam, New York, was sentenced today to 130 months in prison for engaging in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl pills, cocaine, and methamphetamine, for distributing fentanyl pills, and for using a firearm during or in relation to a drug trafficking crime. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Fran more PR

BUFFALO, New York, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Houssam El-Atat, 44, of Montreal, Canada, was extradited from Spain and made an initial appearance today on a criminal complaint charging him with conspiracy to engage in international money laundering, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attor more PR

BUFFALO, New York, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Stacey Beardsley aka Stacey J. Peterson, 38, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of misprision of felony, was sentenced to serve two years' probation and 50 hours community service by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua A. Violanti, who handled the case, stated th more PR

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Merrick B. Garland, the Attorney General of the United States; Christopher Wray, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"); and Christie M. Curtis, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, announced today that Muham more PR

BROOKLYN, New York, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: Juan Amaya-Ramirez and Oscar Flores-Mejia pleaded guilty today in connection with the April 23, 2018 murder of 17-year-old Andy Peralta in Kissena Park in Flushing, Queens. As part of their guilty pleas, the defendants admitted to murdering Peralta to gain entrance into MS-13 and also admitted to crimes including cyberstalking resulting in death more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news: Debra Simon Art Consulting and Amtrak have announced new, large-scale public art works by Chitra Ganesh and Eirini Linardaki now on display at New York Penn Station. The installations are the latest in the Art at Amtrak series of rotating public art exhibitions, curated by award-winning public art curator and producer Debra Simon. For the first time since the series started at the station, Art more PR

NEW YORK, Sept. 6 -- U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai issued the following remarks on Sept. 5, 2024: * * * United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai today delivered remarks at the 41st Grand Lodge Convention of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). In her remarks, Ambassador Tai affirmed the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to a worker-centered trade policy that empowers unions and grows the middle class. Ambassador Tai also emphasized t more PR