News from August 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) tackled issues related to prospective climate change legislation in a hearing today addressing the distribution of emissions allowances and revenues. Senator Baucus pressed a panel of experts on the most effective allowance structure,...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: On Friday, August 7th, 2009 Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (NHP) will host a birthday party to commemorate the 275th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Boone. Although his actual birthday is October 22nd, this unique celebration during Indian Summer will feature a walk with “Daniel Boone" through...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park Superintendent Vaughn Baker announced that Karl Cordova, Karen Battle-Sanborn and Jim Freeman are the recipients of the 2008 Rocky Mountain National Park Stewardship Award. The National Park Service proudly presents the Stewardship Award to outstanding individuals and organizations...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: The so-called Employee Free Choice Act was a bad idea in the spring, when it was re-introduced in Congress, and it is still a bad idea now.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: Lara Hooper of Lowell National Historical Park, cell: 978-726-9735.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - Superintendent Russel J. Wilson announced that Cape Lookout National Seashore is preparing an Environmental Assessment for a Passenger Ferry Departure Site Study for the Beaufort and Morehead City areas for service primarily to Shackleford Banks and also to the Cape Lookout Lighthouse...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that the House of Representatives’ appropriations bill would raid HIV/AIDS treatment funds from every metropolitan area in the country to direct money to San Francisco and New York. “Under the House bill, ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: With a wing span of only 3-4 inches across and a migratory journey hundreds of miles long, the Monarch butterfly could use a break don't you think? The Monarch is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies and two groups have been working together to see that there is a "butterfly break" for the Monarch and all butterflies that come to and through Gateway National Recreation Area's (GATE) Great Kills Park on Staten Island.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered remarks today at the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) Conference in San Francisco, Calif.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., announced today the appointment John H. Guendelsberger as a new member of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA is part of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review located in Falls Church, Va., and is responsible for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the city of Wendell, Idaho, to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities. The agreement was reached under the Department’s Project Civic Access initiative, which aims to bring state and local governments into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This agreement is the 165th under Project Civic Access.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—Five companies have agreed to compensate the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania nearly $21.4 million in cash and valuable property to address natural resource damages resulting from decades of zinc smelting operations at the Palmerton Zinc Pile Superfund site in northeast Pennsylvania, the Justice Department and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania announced today. The settlement is the largest natural resource damage settlement to date in Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2009
News Release: The United States has filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against First Choice Armor & Equipment Inc. and its founder, Edward Dovner, for submitting false claims for bullet-proof vests purchased by the United States for federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies, the Justice Department announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 3, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the issuance of a Prompt Corrective Action Directive against Warren Bank, Warren, Michigan, a state chartered member bank.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 3, 2009
The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
