News from April 2008
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: According to Superintendent Jock Whitworth, Zion National Park plans to start ignition of the remaining 500 acres of the 2,300-acre East Mesa Prescribed Fire on Thursday, May 1, 2008. The fire may be postponed a few days because of unfavorable weather conditions or lack of firefighting resources. This...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: Yosemite National Park Superintendent Mike Tollefson announced today that the Glacier Point Road is expected to open to visitors Friday, May 2, 2008 at noon. Glacier Point is located about 30 miles from Yosemite Valley off the Wawona Road, the section of State Highway 41 inside the park. Restrooms along...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: Petrified Forest National Park Observes International Migratory Bird Day.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: Greater Los Angeles, CA - The National Park Service Centennial Challenge will fund five education and science programs in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Channel Islands National Park with an additional $800,000 this year. Each project is an opportunity to enhance the scientific knowledge about the natural resources or provide education and environmental stewards.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C.-- Cape LookoutNational Seashore Superintendent Russel J. Wilson announced the arrival of the first foal of 2008 at Cape Lookout National Seashore.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: Beginning this crop season, farmers will be able to receive text messages on their cell phones from their plants saying whether they are thirsty or not.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: The NIST Information Services Division received a 2007 Silver Maryland Quality Award on Monday, April 7, 2008 at the University of Maryland in College Park. The NIST division was one of three organizations to receive a silver award, which recognizes role-model organizations whose performance is worthy...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today asked the leaders of the Senate Armed Services committee to repeal a section of recently-enacted energy legislation which will make it more difficult and expensive for the U.S. military ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: A novel, three-dimensional (3-D) screening method for analyzing interactions between cells and new biomaterials could cut initial search times by more than half, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Rutgers University report in the new issue of Advanced Materials.* ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Max Planck Institute for Physics in Germany believe they can achieve a significant increase in the accuracy of one of the fundamental constants of nature by boosting an electron to an orbit as far as possible from the atomic...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: In what should be good news for integrated circuit manufacturers, recent studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have helped resolve two important questions about an emerging microcircuit manufacturing technology called nanoimprint lithography-yes, it can accurately stamp delicate insulating structures on advanced microchips, and, no, it doesn't damage them, in fact it makes them better.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks regarding a federal district court decision that found the Bush Administration in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and directed the Department of the Interior to issue a final ESA listing decision protecting the polar bear by May 15, 2008...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding an analysis of the Lieberman-Warner climate change legislation released by the Energy Information Administration today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2008
News Release: PLEASE NOTE - DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER, THIS EVENT.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, Apr. 28, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department today announced that Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has appointed Ronald L. Rodgers to serve as the U.S. Pardon Attorney. Rodgers will oversee the Office of the Pardon Attorney, which is responsible for reviewing petitions for executive clemency and preparing recommendations for the President.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, Apr. 28, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON AND PENSACOLA, Fla. – Stepan Bondarenko, 38, of Philadelphia became the second defendant to plead guilty for his involvement in a vast global child pornography trafficking enterprise, Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, Apr. 28, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Two brothers, Victor Omar Lopez and Oscar Mondragon, were sentenced for their roles in a scheme to smuggle Central American women and girls into the United States and hold them in a condition ...
By Commerce News Now | Apr 28, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON—U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs Dan Price reported today at the second meeting of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum that progress is being made to implement the CEOs’ recommendations and they look forward to achieving even ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 28, 2008
News Release: BOSTON — Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics Inc. has agreed to pay 238 employees across the country a total of $688,772 in overtime back wages due under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Apr 28, 2008
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
