News from March 2008
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ -Petrified Forest National Park will hire up to twelve (12) youth from areas near the park in a Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) non-residential program for the summer of 2008.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released an investigative report entitled “Report on the August 6, 2007 Disaster At Crandall Canyon Mine." The report discusses the findings of Chairman Kennedy's...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: When the River Runs Wild: Flood Control on the Merrimack River.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today introduced legislation that will establish a government corporation specifically dedicated to facilitate investment in clean energy projects.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: BOULDER, Colo.-An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock, based on a single mercury atom. Both clocks are at least 10 times more accurate than the current U.S. time standard.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: North Cascades National Park Service Complex has extended the deadline for public comments for the Stehekin River Corridor Implementation Plan within Lake Chelan National Recreation Area until March 31, 2008. Public input is being sought as the first step in the planning and environmental impact analysis process to determine future management of lands in the lower Stehekin River corridor within Lake Chelan National Recreation Area in response to repeated flooding.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: MAR 6 -- (Baltimore, MD) - A grand jury indicted 11 conspirators for conspiracy to import and sell five kilograms or more of cocaine and one kilogram or more of heroin during a seven year period, announced Carl J. Kotowski, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and fellow Finance Committee members today unanimously approved the nomination of Douglas H.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Baucus firmly reiterated to U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab in a hearing today that successful passage of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: Following up on a net-energy study published in the January Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ), a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL ) scientists today reports the on-farm economic costs of producing switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2008
News Release: With today’s markup by the Senate Budget Committee complete, please be advised that Finance Chairman Baucus will propose the use of any surplus budget funds to provide tax relief to America’s working families, including our nation’s military men and women. Tax relief in the Baucus amendment to the Senate budget will include, but not be limited to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON New guidance released this week by the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Justice (DOJ) reinforced the right of persons with disabilities to make reasonable modifications ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Divestitures in Indiana and Pennsylvania Preserve Competition in Market for Coated Recycled Boxboard WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Altivity Packaging LLC (Altivity) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON & NEWARK, N.J. - Besler & Company, Inc., a healthcare consulting firm; and its principal, Philip Besler, have agreed to pay the United States $2.875 million, plus interest, to settle allegations of fraud against the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 CONNECTICUT - Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and other federal officials today announced that a federal jury in New Haven, Connecticut, has found Hassan Abu-Jihaad, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - A former police officer in the Guatemalan government was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on drug charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - Michael John Smith, a commemorative firearms dealer, was convicted today following a jury trial in Cheyenne, Wyo., on federal tax and fraud charges, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the issuance of a Consent Order of Prohibition against Russell K. Henry, a former employee and institution-affiliated party of the former FNB Southeast.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the issuance of a Consent Order of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty against Tradition Bank, Bellaire, Texas, a state member bank. Tradition Bank, without admitting to any allegations, consented to the issuance of the Order in connection with its alleged violations of the Board’s Regulations implementing the National Flood Insurance Act.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Assistant Secretary for Import Administration Discusses Imported Uranium from Russia WASHINGTON—Today Assistant Secretary for Import Administration David Spooner testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Spooner delivered an update concerning the importation of Russia uranium.
