News from May 2007
By USDA Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Agricultural Research Service rangeland scientist Jeff Herrick has joined with scientists from around the world to develop a template for a new desertification science that incorporates human as well as biological and physical dimensions.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge and Sheep Mountain areas of the park. To enable wildlife managers to gather information and ensure that raptors can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting season.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The National Park Service announced today that the Dune Shacks of the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District, which is located within the bounds of Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts, does not satisfy National Register of Historic Places requirements for recognition as a Traditional...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today welcomed an historic delegation of 17 senior Chinese officials to meet with the Senate Finance Committee in the U.S. Capitol. The Chinese delegation - led by Vice Premier Wu Yi - has been in Washington this week for the Strategic...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: esearchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University, have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires. As described in a recent paper,* the...
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today said that development of coal-to-liquids technology is essential for strengthening U.S. energy security over the coming years.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: In the spring of 1895, workers broke ground for a building that was to serve as the new administrative office for the Quincy Mining Company. More than a century later, it still stands overlooking the mine site near the crest of Quincy Hill. Now owned by the National Park Service, the office building...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Mr. President. Over the last few days there have been countless articles about the popular diabetes drug Avandia. For me, some of the most important questions that need to be answered here are what did FDA know, when did it know it, and what did it do with the information.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore opens lifeguarded beaches on May 26, 2007. Lifeguards are on duty from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. seven days a week from Memorial Day through Labor Day on Ocracoke Island and in Nags Head at Coquina Beach. Due to a lack of certified lifeguard candidates, the lifeguarded beach...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D.-Mont.) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today introduced legislation that encourages states to develop, implement and evaluate new and better ways to deal with medical malpractice cases. The current system of tort litigation does little to improve patient safety, while causing doctors’ malpractice insurance premiums to skyrocket.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Homestead, Florida. Since 2003, Everglades National Park has been engaged in a planning process to update a General Management Plan (GMP) that will guide Park management for the next 20 years. "Everglades National Park has not had a comprehensive plan since its 1979 master plan. A new management plan...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Final supplemental spending legislation approved by the Senate today includes a long-overdue minimum wage hike for America’s workers, and a number of small business tax incentives shepherded to passage by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.). Baucus and House Ways and...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, made the following comment after a committee members’ meeting with a high-ranking Chinese delegation to discuss U.S.-China trade relations.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2007
News Release: I’m going to discuss this bill’s unusual process first. I’ll talk the substance after that. We will soon be considering the war supplemental bill entitled “U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007".
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2007
News Release: Today, the Committee is repeating history. We again are reviewing whether the Treasury Department should be allowed to contract with private debt collectors for federal taxes.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, commended the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) on nuclear safety with the People’s Republic of China.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - Shengji Wang, a Chinese national, pleaded guilty in Hawaii yesterday to one count of conspiracy to violate the civil rights of women who were smuggled into the U.S. Territory of American Samoa. ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV OPA (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 "After several hours of testimony by Monica Goodling; more than 6,800 pages and an additional 1,500 pages made available to Congress; two extensive public hearings with the Attorney General; and many hours ...
By Commerce News Now | May 23, 2007
News Release: Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. It’s a privilege to be in Seattle. Sometimes Washington, D.C. can be far removed from the everyday challenges and opportunities facing Americans. So, I appreciate any opportunity to travel our great country and meet face-to-face with community and business leaders to ensure that what we do in Washington is grounded in reality.
By Commerce News Now | May 23, 2007
News Release: SECRETARY GUTIERREZ: Thank you. Thank you, Secretary Paulson.
