News from February 2010
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: A cocktail of compounds emitted by the beneficial fungus Muscodor albus may offer a biologically based way to fumigate certain crops and rid them of destructive pests. That's the indication from Agricultural Research Service (ARS) studies in which scientists pitted Muscodor against potato tuber moths, apple codling moths and Tilletia fungi that cause bunt diseases in wheat.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: Press Conference to be held for Project Headlands road construction on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: Chickasaw NRA subject to Oklahoma firearms laws.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: Road Improvements to begin this month in the Marin Headlands.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have announced the release of the White Oak Road Environmental Assessment. The assessment analyzes a proposal to issue a right-of-way (ROW) permit to North Carolina Department of Transportation (NC DOT) to allow widening of White Oak Road (State Rd. 1338)...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CAHA) 2010 pre-nesting closure summary description and maps have been released and are available to the public on the PEPC website under the Interim Protected Species Management Strategy project at.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
Release: Washington, DC, Feb. 19, 2010 - Today, USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon marked the one year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, better known as the stimulus or recovery package. USDA received an additional $100 million to provide food to local food banks...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - A change in federal law effective Feb. 22, allows people who can legally possess firearms under federal and Montana law to possess those firearms in Glacier National Park. The new federal law makes possession of firearms in national parks also subject to the firearms laws of the state and communities where the parks are located.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it is awarding a total of $19.5 million to the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado to develop and implement NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship programs. The new fellowship programs were funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 19, 2010 - After House and Senate Committees approved two different versions of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 (Akaka bill) last December, House Democrats have now released another rewritten version of this bill. The House is expected to vote on the latest altered text next week.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: New Firearms Law Takes Effect Monday - National parks now subject to state and local firearms laws.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2010
News Release: Public Meeting: Tuesday Evening, Feb. 23, 2010. City Hall, 777 Cypress Avenue. Community Room, 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend a meeting to discuss a proposal to make the four designated swimming beaches at Whiskeytown Lake tobacco free. The pending rule would designate picnic areas and...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: The seventh meeting of the Denali National Park Aircraft Overflights Advisory Council that was to take place on Thursday, February 25 in Wasilla, Alaska has been re-scheduled for Thursday, May 6. It will be held at the Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge in Talkeetna, Alaska.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Mexico City—U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Secretary of Public Safety (SSP) Genaro García Luna today signed a Declaration of Principles of Cooperation on joint efforts to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and share information about transnational threats while streamlining legitimate travel and trade.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement with Sunlight Inc., doing business as Beauty Smart, of Durham, N.C., to resolve allegations of a pattern or practice of discrimination in recruitment and hiring on the basis of national origin. The agreement was reached under the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of citizenship status and national origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – James R. Durr, 55, of Wrightstown, N.J., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Camden, N.J., for violating the Endangered Species Act by taking the federally protected bog turtle and for making false statements to authorities, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement with The Children’s House Inc. of Broadview Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, to provide services for children with asthma as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: Irma Azrelyant and Joshua Finkle, the former co-owners of New York and New Jersey-based Deaf and Hard of Hearing Interpreting Services Inc. (DHIS), pleaded guilty today to engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Video Relay Service (VRS) program of more than $7 million, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: A U.S. Army contracting official was charged today with bribery and unlawful salary supplementation in connection with two schemes to solicit more than $30,000 in bribes from an Egyptian businessman in Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride of the Eastern District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: An allegedly high-ranking leader of one of Mexico’s largest drug cartels, whose father allegedly heads a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel and is among Mexico’s most powerful drug kingpins, was extradited today from Mexico to face federal narcotics trafficking conspiracy charges in the United States. Jesus ...
