News from July 2007
By State Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the release by the Ethiopian government of 38 of the country’s parliamentarians and leaders of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), journalists and civil society activists. The group was arrested in connection with demonstrations protesting the conduct and outcomes of the Ethiopian national elections of November 2005.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: Electricity, power, water, communications, waste treatment-we call the facilities that supply these services our "critical" infrastructures because they truly are critical to the health, safety and quality of everyday life. And because they are so critical, the computer systems used to control these infrastructure operations need to be rigorously protected against security breaches.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Officials at Glacier National Park announce that an environmental assessment (EA) for proposed improvements to the sewage system and wasterwater treatment facilities in the Many Glacier Valley is available for public review. Comments are due by Aug. 14, 2007.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an improved version of a real-time magnetic microscopy system that converts evidence of tampering on magnetic audio and video tapes-erasing, overdubbing and other alterations-into images with four times the resolution previously...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: Planting annual spring wheat, especially using no-till, is excellent for wind erosion control in the low-rainfall region of the Pacific Northwest. However, in dry years it does not pay the bills.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director William Jeffrey has named Clare Allocca as the chief of NIST's new United States Measurement System (USMS) Office. The creation of the office marks the start of the second phase of NIST's USMS effort to ensure that the nation's measurement infrastructure-a large, diverse collection of private and public-sector organizations-can sustain U.S. innovation at a world-leading pace.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: Wartime military patrols and civilian encounters can be especially dangerous if neither group understands the other's language. To help American forces secure critical information and communicate with the local population, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are evaluating prototype, real-time, two-way translation systems for the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: The traveling exhibit located at the Historical Center’s People of the Falls Museum, open 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through Monday, kicks off the Mission Point Fur Trade Encampment that runs July 28 and 29th.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C.-Today, Senator Kennedy and Senator Kerry introduced legislation aimedat protecting nurses from forced overtime at the demand of their employers. The bill setsstrict limits on health care facilities that are requiring nurses to work mandatory overtime,which can put the patients they care...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: Rain and cooler weather have calmed the Tolo Fire, located in North Cascades National Park approximately fifteen miles up-valley from Stehekin, Washington. The Stehekin Valley received more than three-quarters of an inch of rain since Wednesday morning. The fire grew very little in the last two days.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: The House Agriculture Committee today passed a new Farm Bill that makes historic investments in conservation, nutrition and renewable energy while maintaining a strong safety net for America’s farmers and ranchers. Additionally, for the first time, the 2007 Farm Bill provides substantial funding for the fruit and vegetable industry.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is beginning a technical study of the June 18, 2007, fire at the Super Sofa Store furniture store/warehouse in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine firefighters.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC: Today, a bipartisan group of fourteen Senators, led by Senators Kennedyand Specter introduced a bill to overturn the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision in Ledbetterv. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, which undermined the basic protection against paydiscrimination under the Civil Rights...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today said that he is looking forward to participating in a Senate-House conference committee to finalize legislation that will make America more competitive.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: For electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes-single-atom defects in the crystal-they're killers. That's one of the conclusions reached by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2007
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Officials at Glacier National Park announce that an environmental assessment (EA) for a proposed cabin removal is available for public review. Comments are due by Aug. 17, 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Equistar Chemicals LP, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will spend more than $125 million on pollution controls and cleanup to address a myriad of air, water and hazardous waste violations at seven petrochemical plants in Texas, Illinois, Iowa and Louisiana, the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Proposal Seeks to Amend Gaps in Current Statutes WASHINGTON The Department of Justice today submitted to Congress new proposed legislation that seeks to update and improve current laws aimed at protecting Americans from the increasingly sophisticated crime of identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today filed a consent order resolving a lawsuit which has alleged that the owners, developers, builders, architects and engineers of six apartment complexes in Montgomery ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV NSD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTONA federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Tennessee has charged a former contract worker at East Tennessee Technology Park with converting to his own use restricted government materials ...
