News from March 2009
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is in the initial stages of developing an environmental assessment for the construction of a parking area at the Goodman Point Unit of Hovenweep National Monument near Cortez, Colorado. Prior to preparing an environmental assessment, the NPS is soliciting public comment to help identify issues associated with the proposed plan.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 9, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks regarding today's decision by the Department of Interior to remove gray wolves from the list of threatened and endangered species in the western Great Lakes and the Northern Rocky Mountain states of Idaho and Montana and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah. Wolves will remain a protected species in Wyoming.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - H.R.1 / Bureau of Reclamation Funding - “For an additional amount for `Water and Related Resources', $1,000,000,000." (P.L. 111-5, Title IV).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2009
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that National Park Service (NPS) staff will establish the 2009 pre-nesting areas for breeding shorebirds in Cape Hatteras National Seashore during the week of March 9th in accordance with the terms of the consent decree.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service will continue with a prescribed fire project at Natural Bridges National Monument this month according to Superintendent Corky Hays. Currently the project is scheduled to begin Tuesday, March 10, weather conditions permitting. The burn project should take 3-4 days to complete the approximately 50 acres planned for ignition.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 9, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Tom Carper (D-DE), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, today applauded U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson's announcement that EPA will begin reviews and inspections of all coal ash impoundments in the U.S. and will start the process of issuing rules to regulate coal combustion waste.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2009
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore and Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA) are celebrating the inaugural year of restoration at the Giacomini Wetlands with an exciting series of field and evening seminars in 2009, as well as opportunities to volunteer and improve restoration efforts.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder joined President Obama in Columbus, Ohio today at the Columbus Police Graduation Exercises to announce $2 billion in Recovery Act 2009 funding allocations for state and local law enforcement and criminal justice assistance available through the Edward Byrne ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Odell Folks, a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Tanya Smith, a resident of Waterbury, Conn., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to file false claims for tax refunds, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Folks also pleaded guilty to mail fraud and making a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a three-count indictment today charging a former staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives with corruption offenses, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division announced. Fraser C. Verrusio, 39, was ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit filed in the District of New Mexicoagainst Community Health Systems Inc. (CHS) and three of its hospitals in New Mexico: Eastern New Mexico Medical Center in Roswell, Mimbres Memorial Hospital in Deming, and Alta Vista Regional Hospital ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON— John Joseph Cota, a California ship pilot, pleaded guilty today to negligently causing the discharge of approximately 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay in violation of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a law enacted in the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Cota, who piloted the M/V ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The 60th felony conviction from Operation Fastlink, a major Department of Justice initiative to combat online piracy worldwide, was announced today by Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Rita M. Glavin and Acting U.S. Attorney Nora R. Dannehy of the District of Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – An indictment was unsealed today charging Clark Alan Roberts, 46, and Sean Edward Howley, 38, both engineers with Wyko Tire Technology Inc., located in Greenback, Tenn., with conspiring to steal trade secrets from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and scheming to defraud Goodyear of confidential ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the February 2009 Employment Situation report released today: "Today we learned that our economy lost another 651,000 jobs in February, bringing the unemployment rate to 8.1 percent. Four-point-four million Americans have now lost their jobs since this recession began last year, and there are now nearly three million Americans who have been unemployed for six months or more.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced to states and outlying areas their allotment levels for Labor Department-administered employment and training programs funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The workforce investment system will use the $3,514,500,000 to help Americans get back to work through the national network of One-Stop Career Centers.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: Award committee lauds accessibility and visibility through digitization, lecture series efforts WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Wirtz Labor Library has been selected by the American Library Association as the winner of the 2009 John Sessions Memorial Award, which honors a library or library ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 6, 2009
News Release: Atlanta – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a settlement agreement with Consulting Services Group (CSG) of Memphis, Tennessee, and its affiliated broker-dealer providing for restitution to plan clients as well as implementation of reforms and disclosures on compensation and fee arrangements with plan clients in the future. CSG already has paid $277,802.78 and agreed to pay a $27,780 in civil penalty.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 6, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
