News from August 2006
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park announced late Tuesday that park staff and the ALERT crew extracted an injured hiker from the Atsina Lake area in the Belly River drainage.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) sent a letter to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Dr. Michael D. Griffin expressing concerns about the organization’s elimination from its mission statement of the phrase “to understand and protect...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - A hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations today provided revealing information about the role of offshore tax shelters in the U.S. tax gap, and about IRS efforts to close that chasm. Senator Max Baucus, a longtime advocate of strong measures to close the $345 billion...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: Mr. President, I am pleased to join once again my good friend and colleague Senator Baucus to introduce the Medicare Wage Index Accuracy Improvement Act of 2006.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to announce that effective Friday, July 7, 2006, visitors to North Bar Lake, located within the boundaries of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore near Empire, will be able to purchase park passes through a self-registration system there. All visitors to the Lakeshore...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: The committee is postponing the business meeting originally scheduled to be held at 11:30 a.m. in D 628. The purpose of the meeting was to consider the nomination of: John Ray Correll, of Indiana, to be Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the Interior; ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray announces plans to conduct an informal Open House session Tuesday, August 8th from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm at the Fessenden Center on Hatteras Island. This session is intended to provide an opportunity for community members to meet new staff members for the Seashore...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park Superintendent Mick Holm announced today that, effective immediately and until further notice, campfires and smoking will be prohibited in the backcountry.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2006
News Release: Studies have shown that it's possible to remove excess nutrients from manure lagoons by growing plants on floating mats. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Tifton, Ga., have been studying how to most efficiently use this method to extract excess nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater so it won't become an environmental problem.
