News from February 2009
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Everglades National Park Superintendent Dan B. Kimball is pleased to announce the public release of revised preliminary alternatives for the park’s marine areas as part of an update to its General Management Plan (GMP). The alternatives are described in Newsletter #5: Revised Preliminary Alternatives...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore has the largest mainland, breeding colony of harbor seals in California. Resting and pupping harbor seals come onshore in various parts of the park particularly in Tomales Bay, Tomales Point, Double Point, Drakes Estero and Bolinas Lagoon. Around one hundred seals congregate within the Estero and Double Point and numerous seals assemble near the mouth of Tomales Bay on tidal sand bars off Dillon Beach.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Van Nuys, CA - Howard L. Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement today on the news that the United States will not take part in a United Nations-led conference on racism in April known as Durban II...
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Van Nuys, CA -- Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued this comment on talks in Cairo intended to bring about a national unity government among Palestinian factions...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: The person who fell to his death from Canyon Overlook in Zion National Park has been identified as Dave Brigham, 48, of Sussex, New Jersey. The body was discovered at the base of the Great Arch by a National Park Service search team at 8:15 a.m. on Thursday, February 26. Brigham fell approximately 400 feet to his death from Canyon Overlook into Pine Creek Canyon.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator John Kerry released the following statement today about President Obama's speech on his Iraq withdrawal strategy before an audience of Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C.:
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Building on an initial injection project of 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into a Michigan geologic formation, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners has begun injecting 50,000 additional tons into the formation, which is believed capable of storing hundreds of years worth of CO2, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today responded to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report suggesting that tax compliance would be improved if Congress were to enact legislation requiring trades or businesses to report to the IRS on Form 1099-MISC the payments...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: The detection of 3,000 proteins produced in plants of common beans could help breeders develop resistance against the bean rust fungus, Uromyces appendiculatus, a major concern for domestic dry bean and snap bean growers. This rust is prevalent throughout the continental United States, according to research by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: PHOENIX -- Come witness a rare and spectacular sight that few places outside Arizona can offer: the release into the wild of endangered California condors. The public is invited to attend the 14th annual release on Saturday, March 7 at 11 a.m. when four condors will be released at the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Dear Secretary Geithner and Commissioner Shulman...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded an international tribunal’s decision ordering Canada to compensate the United States for Canada’s violation of the 2006 U.S. - Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA). The LCIA (formerly the London Court of International...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - A bipartisan group of 14 House and Senate leaders are objecting to a provision contained in the Obama Administration's budget proposal that would significantly impact the way federal highway, transit, and airport improvement funds are distributed.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Iraqi-born Dutch citizen today pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to murder Americans overseas, including by planting roadside bombs targeting U.S. soldiers in Fallujah, Iraq, and by demonstrating on video how these explosives would be detonated to destroy American vehicles and their occupants.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The President released the Administration’s FY 2010 top-line budget proposal today which includes $26.5 billion for the Department of Justice (DOJ), a 3.5 percent increase more than the FY 2009 budget. The Department’s budget includes enhanced funding for: national security and intelligence; combating financial fraud; hiring additional police officers; civil rights enforcement; securing our nation’s borders; and for federal detention and incarceration programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — An employee of a Sewell, N.J., company that provided temporary electrical utilities pleaded guilty today to participating in a fraud conspiracy at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-designated Superfund site in New Jersey, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Christopher Paul, a/k/a Abdul Malek, a/k/a Paul Kenyatta Laws, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen born in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for conspiring with others to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely explosive devices, against targets in Europe and the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the city of Dayton that, if approved by the court, will resolve the Department’s complaint that Dayton has been engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-Americans in its hiring of entry-level police officers and firefighters, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Rodrigo Molina, 33, a Brazilian national who resided in Miami, was found guilty by a federal jury on 11 of 16 charged counts related to a $13.5 million money laundering conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced.
