News from November 2009
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Worldwide efforts to fund and establish carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects have accelerated, according to a new Department of Energy (DOE) online database, indicating ongoing positive momentum toward achieving the G-8 goal for launching 20 CCS demonstrations by 2010.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -. Click to enlarge. Background: 1. The House Republican Conference that “the newest significant refinery began operating in 1977.". 1. The Energy Information Administration ’s profile on Singapore. 1. The Congressional Research Service reports: “Hurricanes Katrina and Rita shut...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA), House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), and Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Sen. John...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) applauded President Obama’s announcement late this evening that the United States will participate actively in the Trans- Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP) negotiations. On Oct. 22, 2009, Senators Baucus and Chuck Grassley...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2009
News Release: Approximately 123 aged, unsafe, and non-historic eucalyptus, Monterey Cypress and pine trees (some hazardous and some diseased) will be removed in this area over a period of approximately three weeks beginning next week or the following week (mid-November 2009).
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2009
News Release: -Obey Statement. "Consumers have spoken with their wallets and they're saying they like this program.". -Bill Text: HR 3435. More text here.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: Secretary Chu announced today that the Department of Energy has issued a final determination and market impact study for the proposed uranium transfer to fund accelerated cleanup activities at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, which will create between 800 to 1,000 new jobs for the community. The market review and determination confirms that the proposed transfer of uranium will not have an adverse material impact on the domestic uranium industries.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today joined U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen to participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Coast Guard Memorial in Arlington National Ceremony.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton today announced that ICE’s Secure Communities initiative—a partnership with local law enforcement agencies that uses biometrics to identify and remove criminal aliens—identified more than 111,000 criminal aliens in local custody during its first year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — Kaiser Foundation Hospitals - Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente P.C., Physicians & Surgeons (collectively, Kaiser NW) has agreed to pay the United States $1,830,322.41 to settle False Claims Act liability, the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former consultant for Willbros International Inc. (WII), a subsidiary of Houston-based Willbros Group Inc. (Willbros), pleaded guilty today to engaging in a conspiracy to pay more than $6 million in bribes to government officials of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and officials from a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Steven W. Burgess, a former Jackson County, Mo., sheriff’s deputy, pleaded guilty in federal court today to violating the civil rights of a teenage girl whom he sexually assaulted in his patrol car, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced it has filed a lawsuit today in federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri alleging a pattern or practice of violations of the Fair Housing Act by the owner and managers of Forum Manor Apartments, a federally-subsidized apartment complex, for refusing ...
By Fed Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced final rules that prohibit financial institutions from charging consumers fees for paying overdrafts on automated teller machine (ATM) and one-time debit card transactions, unless a consumer consents, or opts in, to the overdraft service for those types of transactions.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: The federal bank and thrift regulatory agencies announce today they are reopening the comment period on proposed guidance on correspondent concentration risks, originally published on September 25. The comment period will be open until Nov. 27, 2009, an additional 30 days after the original comment period closed.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: Commerce secretary also to accompany President Obama during Beijing visit U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will be in Singapore and China the next six days, focused on an agenda that seeks to create jobs at home by making U.S. businesses more competitive in some of the fastest growing economies in ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: GRANDVILLE, Mich. — Li Jin Yang and Dong Lin, a wife and husband operating five Oriental Forest restaurants, headquartered in Grandville with locations across the western part of Michigan, have been ordered by a federal court judge to pay $2,030,430 in minimum wage and overtime pay and damages owed to 129 workers following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. – Cranesville Aggregate Co., doing business as Scotia Bag Plant, Scotia, N.Y., faces a total of $509,000 in proposed fines from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The plant, which bags cement and asphalt, has been cited for 33 alleged willful, repeat and serious violations of workplace safety and health standards following comprehensive OSHA inspections over the past six months.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Loren Cook Co. of Springfield with seven alleged willful and three alleged serious violations after a worker was killed by an ejected machine part on May 13.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 12, 2009
News Release: CINCINNATI – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited bridge and water tower painter UCL Inc. in Cincinnati with alleged willful, egregious and serious violations of federal workplace safety and health standards for exposing workers to lead. Proposed fines total $321,000.
