News from April 2009
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Drawing, painting and mixed media by Redland Elementary School’s art students will be on display at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center for the month of May, 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Backcountry overnight campers will be required to carry a food canister in to Rocky Mountain National Park’s backcountry this summer. This new requirement will go in to effect on May 1.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: As Entered into the Record. This morning our committee takes up the important issue of protecting the workplace safety and health of the hard-working men and women of America. I commend Senator Murray for holding this hearing and for her leadership on this major issue. Twenty years ago, workplace safety...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Mount Rushmore National Memorial will be offering free week-long sculpting workshops on the Borglum View Terrace throughout the summer. Artist in Residence Kim Henkel will be returning from New Mexico for a third season to conduct the following sessions in stone carving and clay portraiture.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
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By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: First to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA), Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and the National Archives Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Representative Lynn A. Westmoreland (R-GA) and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) have...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Saturday, May 2, 7:00 p.m. - Nature and Humanity: Connecting Our Lands, Our Lives, and Our Stories.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ ― The national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges, grasslands, and millions of acres of public lands are truly America's wildflower gardens. Celebrating Wildflowers' National Wildflower Week in late spring is an annual event. It launches a campaign that promotes the many programs featuring the important role that the Nation's public lands, over 630 million acres, play in providing diverse habitats for much of America's flora.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Everglades National Park will close the Chekika area of the park as of Friday May 1, 2009. The Chekika entrance is only open seasonally (December 1 through April 30) due to flooding during the wet season and will reopen December 1 2009. If there are any questions please contact our main office at 305-242-7700 or check our website for current park information at nps.gov/ever.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released policy options for reducing costs and improving quality in the health care delivery system ahead of a Wednesday Finance Members meeting to consider the options. At that meeting,...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John S. Tanner (D-TN), issued the following opening statement at a Subcommittee hearing on SSA’s Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5)...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today commended the Senate confirmation of Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary by a vote of 65 to 31. The Finance Committee reported Sebelius’s nomination to the full Senate by a vote of 15 to 8 last week. Today, Baucus reiterated his support for Sebelius to lead HHS and work with Congress to pass compressive health care reform this year.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on the FY 2010 budget resolution...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: On April 21, 2009, the National Park Service began the installation of new off-road vehicle (ORV) information signs at beach access ramps in accordance with paragraph 29 of the court ordered consent decree. The first signs were installed at Ramp 43 on Hatteras Island and additional signs for all ramps are scheduled for installation.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 28, 2009
News Release: A pest with a voracious appetite may have met its match in a predatory mite being evaluated as a biocontrol agent by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Fort Pierce, Fla. in collaboration with University of Florida researchers.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray reminds park visitor that beginning May 1, 2009 all Seashore beaches are closed to off-road vehicles (ORVs) between the hours of 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. in accordance with the court ordered consent decree. Enforcement of the restriction will begin at midnight on April 30, 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury has indicted four defendants, and an information has been filed against a fifth defendant, for their participation in a massive mortgage fraud scheme that allegedly promised to pay off homeowners’ mortgages on their "Dream Homes," but left them to fend for themselves, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A high-level Korean executive from LG Display Co. Ltd. (LG) has agreed to plead guilty and serve a year in jail in the United States for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices in the sale of Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) panels, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
