News from April 2010
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: 2010 Lyceum Series “Wilderness: Of What Avail Are Forty Freedoms Without A Blank Spot On The Map?".
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: Environmental Assessments for Bryce Canyon National Park’s Wildlife Viewing Pullouts Project and Vegetation Management Plan Available for Public Review.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Ron Ross has received the 2010 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer Week, the award honors the top professionals in the federal information technology community. This is the third time he has been named to the list.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Dan Kimball announced that Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks will have free admission during National Park Week,.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 13, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the followings statement regarding today’s cancelation of 91,000 acres of oil and natural gas leases in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. These and future lease sales were recently suspended by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at the behest of environmental groups until the agency can study the leases’ impact on climate change.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation will provide $20.7 million for the Delta-Mendota Canal/California Aqueduct Intertie project under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The National Park Service today announced three actions to help protect bear and wolf populations and park values within NPS units in Interior Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: Northern Areas of Denali National Park and Preserve Closed to Snowmobile Use Due to Inadequate Snow Cover.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have long-term studies underway to examine growing camelina as a bioenergy crop for producing jet fuel for the military and the aviation industry. This research supports the recently signed memorandum of understanding between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Navy (DoN) and interests of the Commercial Airlines Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI).
By DOL Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: “I’d like to thank all of you for being here today as we continue to discuss reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In our two previous hearings, we gained valuable insight into the need for education reform in order for our country to remain globally competitive; and we heard...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Members, led by Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA), today introduced the Taxpayer Assistance Act of 2010 (Tax Day bill), that would reduce burdens on taxpayers, while enhancing taxpayer protections.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Dan Kimball announced that Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks will have free admission during National Park Week,.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: Mom's trusty nose may be good, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have gone her one better by designing an instrument that quickly and precisely sniffs trace amounts of chemical compounds that indicate poultry spoilage without damaging the product itself.* The process can detect minute amounts of spoilage compounds and can be used by suppliers during all stages of processing, transport and storage.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: Dear Secretary Napolitano: As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) begins the deployment of whole body imaging machines at airport screening checkpoints, we urge the Department to evaluate the imaging technology that we saw demonstrated last week at Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Tuesday that the findings of an independent government probe require more aggressive review be applied to a Federal Emergency Management Agency plan to build new housing for those displaced by a September 2009 tsunami in American Samoa.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: The GAO review was requested by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Chairman Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, Ranking...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 13, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) and National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Ranking Member Rob Bishop (UT-01) will introduce a today that is aimed at requiring the Secretary of the Interior to turn over to the House...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Abuja, Nigeria—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday visited Abuja, Nigeria, at the invitation of the Nigerian government, to meet with top officials from across Africa and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to discuss ways to bolster global aviation security.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 New ISC Standards and Improved Information Sharing for FPS Will Strengthen Security Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced two enhancements to federal facility security—initiatives that further strengthen the Department’s ability to protect thousands of government buildings across the United States one week prior to the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Harry Abrahamsen, a resident of Oradell, N.J., pleaded guilty today to failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts (FBAR), the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. In his plea, Abrahamsen admitted that he concealed over $1 million in Swiss bank accounts.
