News from March 2009
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced two shorebird breeding area closures that are being implemented in accordance with the consent decree that was approved by the U.S. District Court on April 30, 2008.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today introduced The Financial System Stabilization and Reform Act (FSSRA) of 2009 to fundamentally restructure our nation’s outdated financial regulatory system and to strengthen oversight and accountability in our financial markets.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2009 - Republican members of the House Natural Resources Committee announced today that they will propose 12 amendments to the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act when it is taken up by the House Rules Committee on Tuesday.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: Patchogue, New York-Several new volunteer opportunities will start this summer at Fire Island National Seashore, including an invasive species monitoring project at the William Floyd Estate. You’re invited to learn about these positions and more during the park’s Volunteer in the Park (VIP) recruitment...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Officials at Glacier National Park report that park road crews are beginning spring snow plowing in earnest this week. Plowing of the Going-to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road) beyond Lake McDonald Lodge is scheduled to begin Wednesday, April 1 and proceed to Avalanche Creek to accommodate...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: Lowell, MA. Having an opportunity to get their hands in the dirt is an eye-opening experience for many youth, one that helps them become invested in the world around them. Children need the outdoors to grow, and there are no more extraordinary and diverse outdoor places in our country than America’s national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: Watts Constructors, LLC, was awarded the $32.6 million firm-fixed price contract on Sept. 24, 2008. Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc. has been hired as the project’s pile driving subcontractor. The company plans to mobilize, move their crane, and begin pre-drilling for test piles the week of March 16.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: Beginning in mid May, a dedicated group of volunteers known as the Bighorn Brigade will be back on duty. This volunteer group helps staff the Sheep Lakes Information Station in Horseshoe Park, one of the premier wildlife viewing areas in Rocky Mountain National Park. Volunteers furnish information to park visitors about bighorn sheep and other park resources, protect the migration of bighorn sheep across Hwy 34, and educate visitors on ethical wildlife viewing.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: 2009 Lyceum Series - Celebrate our Natural World: Artists Who Are Inspired by the Environment.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: Spring is finally here, and with it comes tick season. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are reporting the latest in a series of related studies on the effectiveness of an ARS technology that reduces tick populations.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2009 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings and National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Ranking Member Rob Bishop called upon Democrat Leaders to immediately hold a vote to restore Americans’ Second Amendment rights on public lands...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2009
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D?Mont.) today applauded the President’s announcement that he intends to nominate Neal S. Wolin to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Lael Brainard to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, and that Stuart A. Levey will remain in his position as the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Baucus expressed confidence in the nominees and their ability to address the economic crisis.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2009
News Release: De Soto National Memorial Invites You to Five Centuries of Florida History in One Day.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2009
News Release: Ninety Six, South Carolina - Surround yourself with over 300 years of history at Ninety Six National Historic Site’s Revolutionary War Days. Experience Revolutionary War life through an authentic encampment. Listen to Colonial music. Visit with reenactors portrayingGeneral Andrew Pickens, General Nathanael...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2009
News Release: Filmmaker's work to air on PBS in fall.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia on behalf of Frantz Julien, a New York Army National Guard member, against the Symphony Diagnostic Services Inc., doing business as MobilexUSA (Mobilex), alleging violations of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Elena Kagan was sworn in as Solicitor General of the United States today by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in a ceremony held in the Chief Justice’s chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 20, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Thunder Bancorp, Inc., a registered bank holding company, Thunder Bank, a state chartered member bank, both of Sylvan Grove, Kansas, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 20, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board announced Friday that it will publish the annual revision to the G.17 statistical release, Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization, on Friday, March 27 at 2 p.m. EDT.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 20, 2009
News Release: DETROIT In a settlement filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit, Ecolab Inc. has agreed to pay $118,000 to a returning Iraq war veteran to resolve a Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) complaint investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor's Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS).
