News from February 2010
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2010
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 16, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2010
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2010
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2010
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor announced today at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamogordo, N.M., that Reclamation and New Mexico State University signed a cooperative agreement to conduct advanced water treatment research at or associated with the facility. This agreement is valued at $5 million.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that the Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee will meet March 30-31, 2010. The meeting - at the Holiday Inn Capitol Hotel, 550 C Street, SW, Washington, D.C. -- will be held 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 30, 2010, and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 31, 2010.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) will be supporting the creation of a regional research center that will develop new energy-efficiency technologies for buildings. MEP is taking part in an interagency initiative to establish an Energy...
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement today about Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim:
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists have reported new reasons for choosing €œheart-healthy" oats at the grocery store.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is co-sponsoring an international conference on biometric performance March 2-4 at NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. Related workshops will be held March 1 and March 5.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: The fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget request for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) submitted to Congress proposes a funding level of $918.9 million, a 7.3 percent increase over the FY 2010 appropriations for the agency.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 16, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) today announced new staff in the Committee communications office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world's most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous pacesetter based on a mercury atom. The new aluminum clock would neither gain nor lose a second in about 3.7 billion years, according to measurements to be reported in a forthcoming issue of Physical Review Letters.*
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. and Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., today said taxpayers shouldn’t be funding questionable climate science and called for a review of more than $2.5 million in stimulus grants awarded to one climate researcher who is under investigation for his role in the Climategate scandal that unearthed efforts by leading climate scientists to destroy data, distort research and prevent publication of dissenting viewpoints.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Underscoring his Administration’s commitment to jumpstarting the nation’s nuclear power industry, President Obama today announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia. The project is scheduled to be the first U.S. nuclear power plant to break ground in nearly three decades.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: Lake States Interpretive Association (LSIA) has been Voyageurs National Park’s cooperating association for the past 34 years. Over the years LSIA managed and oversaw the park’s three visitor center bookstores, helped support the winter interpretive programs, helped support festivals, and helped produce...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: Join a national park ranger on Saturday, February 2o at 1pm for a winter walk through the Maritime Forest trails at Great Kills Park, Gateway National Recreation Area. Learn how the plants and animals survive the winter, and enjoy the quiet and peacefulness of this hidden treasure. Bring binoculars and...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2010
News Release: Dear Commissioner Hamburg: As Ranking Member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance (Committee), I have a special responsibility to the more than 100 million Americans who receive health care coverage under those programs to ensure that taxpayer and beneficiary dollars are appropriately spent...
