News from March 2008
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Farmington PA - The National Park Service will hold an open house at the Fort Necessity/National Road Interpretive and Education Center in Farmington, PA from 10:00 a.m. to 12 p.m., on March 15, 2008 to make sure that that the public has significant input on the Long Range Interpretive Plan for Fort Necessity National Battlefield.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: The popular Saturday afternoon snowshoe hikes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will continue into March as long as snow conditions permit. March often provides some of the best snowshoeing conditions of the winter and this appears to be one of those years. Meet at the Lakeshore Visitor Center...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: The same gasoline-powered portable generators that keep the lights burning, the freezer cold, and the house warm when a storm shuts off the electricity, can also kill you in minutes if you fail to follow safe practices. A single generator can emit several hundred times more poisonous carbon monoxide...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: “Yesterday, the 27 Finance Ministers of the European Union (EU) displayed renewed determination to crack down on tax havens that trade in secrecy and facilitate tax dodging at the expense of honest taxpayers around the world. The Ministers discussed measures to strengthen information exchange, limit...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Select Revenue Measures Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), issued the following opening statement at a hearing examining whether there is a need for more uniform tax treatment for various derivative structures...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Buildings account for 40 percent of the energy consumed within the United States and a similar percentage of carbon dioxide emissions. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers recently took a look at energy-related upgrades to their own quarters-and found energy-related improvements...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Alaska-based communications company GCI, Inc. will begin installation of a fiber optic cable within the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT) George Parks Highway right-of-way (ROW) that passes through the eastern portion of Denali National Park and Preserve. The trenching and installation work will start Tuesday, March 11 and is not expected to impede highway traffic flow through the six-mile stretch of the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking public comments on a proposed new program to accredit testing laboratories that evaluate biometrics-based identification systems. The proposed Biometrics Laboratory Accreditation Program, requested by the Department of Homeland Security, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Dr. John Hildebrand will talk about how acoustic monitoring can be used to study marine mammals and shipping noise around the Channel Islands at the March “From Shore to Sea" lecture.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Using an unusual spectroscopic technique, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have provided the most convincing evidence yet that current is flowing through a simple silicon-based molecular "sandwich," which is the most basic structure of molecular electronics. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will convene a roundtable discussion on Thursday to examine value-based purchasing of hospital care in Medicare. The roundtable will take place at 2:00 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Great Basin National Park Baker, Nevada - Great Basin National Park is currently seeking comments for a proposed Strawberry Creek Recreational Enhancement project. Your issues and comments will assist with developing alternatives to the proposed action presented below and conducting an environmental analysis consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Today, salads are more nutritious than ever before, thanks in part to research conducted by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's chief scientific research agency.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2008
News Release: Business executives, entrepreneurs, investors and government researchers and development officials interested in commercializing recent research advances in nanoelectronics, nanofabrication and nanometrology will meet April 8 at a Technology Transfer Showcase hosted by the National Institute of Standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Department of Justice announced today the filing of a lawsuit yesterday against the Policía de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Police Department or PRPD) alleging the PRPD discriminated against female officer Jeannette Caraballo Lopez (Caraballo) on the basis of her sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement that will require Cookson Group plc and Foseco plc to divest Fosecos U.S. carbon bonded ceramic (CBC) business in order ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON -- A federal grand jury in Pensacola, Fla. has returned a 35-count indictment against 12 individuals who engaged in a criminal enterprise involving the advertisement, transportation and shipment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON & NEWARK, N.J. Cathedral Healthcare System Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $5.3 million, plus interest, to settle allegations that it defrauded the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A federal jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., today found three Miami-area residents guilty of felony federal civil rights offenses related to forcing a young Haitian woman to work as a domestic servant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON James Clark, chief of staff to the former governor of Alaska, has pleaded guilty to soliciting and accepting nearly $70,000 in illegal polling and consulting expenses for the governor's re-election ...
