News from May 2009
By DOE Gazette | May 5, 2009
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on May 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 5, 2009
The US Agriculture Department published a one page rule on May 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 5, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on May 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 5, 2009
The US Agriculture Department published a one page proposed rule on May 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 5, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on May 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 5, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on May 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 5, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on May 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: Jun Ye, a NIST Fellow working at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, has received the 2009 European Frequency and Time Award. Ye was honored for his pioneering work in establishing a neutral atom optical lattice clock, narrow linewidth lasers, femtosecond spectroscopy, ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2009 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings joined House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence and other members of the American Energy Solutions Group in their Energy Summit.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: Flooding on the Yukon River has caused significant damage in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve gateway communities of Eagle and Eagle Village in northeastern Alaska, including losses to employee homes, and has brought the evacuation this afternoon of at least one family living near the National Park Service unit.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today held a roundtable discussion on expanding health care coverage as part of the panel’s dialogue on comprehensive health care reform. Policy and industry experts addressed the question of how to extend coverage to the 46 million...
By State Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement on the attempted munity in Georgia:
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2009 - Today, Republicans at the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands spoke out against the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA, H.R. 980), which would transfer approximately 24 million acres of lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and Utah from public access lands to off-limits wilderness areas.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park rangers responded to a mule accident this morning on the Bright Angel Trail that involved at 66 year-old woman from California.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: The pathogen that causes the world's most common wheat disease is a moving target, but scientists are now better equipped to keep track of it, thanks to some genetic sleuthing by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), may soon help scientists find out. The new sensors, described on Saturday at a meeting of the...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: Daniel Madrzykowski of the National Institute of Standards and Technology was named George D. Post Instructor of the Year for 2009 by the International Society of Fire Service Instructors and Fire Engineering. Madrzykowski was recognized for his work to improve firefighter safety through research, education...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: Today, the Finance Committee hosts the second of three roundtable discussions on health care in America.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: A National Academy of Sciences report released today identified several errors in a National Park Service publication on the impacts of commercial oyster farming at Drakes Estero, located within Point Reyes National Seashore, but affirmed the majority of the report’s conclusions.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2009
News Release: A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices that remember their last state even after power is turned off. Computers that could switch on instantly without...
