News from August 2009
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2009
News Release: As Hurricane Bill passes east of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the National Weather Service is predicting the coastal waters and beaches will experience the effects of the storm beginning in the afternoon hours of Aug. 21, 2009. Heavy surf conditions, with unusually high waves and dangerous rip currents, are predicted over the weekend with possible ocean overwash and flooding of roadways.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2009
News Release: For twenty days interagency fire crews have managed the Fairfield Fire in Lassen Volcanic National Park Wilderness. The fire was initially ignited by a lightning storm that passed over the park and neighboring region on August 2. Final acreage is approximately 1,664 acres and falls within the 1,800 acre planned area established during the initial stages of implementation.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are a step closer to improving the hardiness of grape varieties that can be damaged and destroyed by fall frosts and cold winters in North American vineyards.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “Today’s meeting on comprehensive immigration reform was an important opportunity to hear from stakeholders and build on the significant time I’ve spent on the Hill meeting with members of Congress on this critical subject. I look ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Forty-three defendants in the United States and Mexico, including 10 alleged Mexican drug cartel leaders, have been charged in 12 indictments unsealed yesterday and today in U.S. federal courts in Brooklyn and Chicago, the Department of Justice, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Hansruedi Schumacher and Matthias Rickenbach, both of Switzerland, were indicted today for conspiring to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. According to the indictment, Schumacher worked as an executive manager at Neue Zuercher ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—Two manufacturing companies, in separate settlements, have agreed to pay civil penalties and take corrective measures to settle Clean Air Act violations resulting from explosions at two plants in 2002 and 2003 in Louisville, Ky., and Pascagoula, Miss., the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: BOSTON - Seven individuals from around New England have been indicted in federal court in Boston for conspiracies to defraud the United States through the promotion and use of multiple tax fraud schemes, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a proposed settlement with Microsemi Corporation that requires the company to divest all of the assets that it acquired from Semicoa Inc. on July 14, 2008. The Department said that without this divestiture, there would be little or no competition in the development, manufacture and sale of certain semiconductor devices used in military and space programs essential to the security of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON -- A federal grand jury in Houston has returned an indictment charging two crewmembers of the oil tanker Georgios M with making false statements, violating federal law designed to prevent pollution from ships and obstruction of justice, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., the world’s largest supplier of premium beef and pork, has agreed to pay a $2,026,500 civil penalty to settle allegations that it violated terms of a 2002 consent decree and a federally-issued pollution discharge permit at its meat processing facility in Dakota City, Neb., the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Coastal Community Investments, Inc., Panama City Beach, Florida, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 20, 2009
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By Commerce News Now | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced in Norfolk, Va. today $40 million for critical hydrographic survey and chart projects across the United States that strengthen the economy, create jobs, and support safe and efficient marine commerce and trade. Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke today approved a plan to prohibit the expansion of commercial fishing in federal Arctic waters until researchers gather sufficient information on fish and the Arctic marine environment to prevent adverse impacts of commercial harvesting activity on the ecosystem.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – In response to today's Bureau of Labor Statistics report announcing the preliminary Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries of 5,071 fatal work injuries in 2008 – down from a total of 5,657 fatal work injuries reported in 2007 – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement: "With every one of these fatalities, the lives of a worker's family members were shattered and forever changed. We can't forget that fact.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 20, 2009
News Release: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Aug. 15, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 576,000, an increase of 15,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 561,000. The 4-week moving average was 570,000, an increase of 4,250 from the previous week's revised average of 565,750.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 20, 2009
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 20, 2009
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 20, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
