News from June 2010
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on June 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on June 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: (202) 586-4940.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: Residential Youth Education Programs in Yosemite National Park.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: A scheduled July 1st public listening session and discussion will provide an opportunity for leaders of the America's Great Outdoors Initiative to hear from people in the Northwest about solutions for building a 21st century conservation and recreation agenda and reconnecting people with the outdoors.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy has signed a cooperative agreement with NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) for the Parish Post-Combustion CO2 Capture and Sequestration Project to design, construct, and operate a system that will capture and store approximately 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: BLM and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) have joined forces to conduct a joint aerial population inventory of wild horses on nearly four million acres of land located in northwest Nevada and southeast Oregon. The survey will be conducted beginning June 20 and will last up to eight days, using...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park rangers are searching for a woman who was seen falling from a bridge below Virginia Falls on the park’s east side. Virginia Falls is located about a half-mile west of the head of St. Mary Lake. Witnesses say they saw the woman fall into the water and lost sight of her downstream in Virginia Creek.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - As part of Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s continuing agenda to strengthen safety and oversight of offshore oil and gas operations, the Department of the Interior today issued a directive to oil and gas lessees and operators requiring them, when they file for a new drilling permit, exploration plan, or development plan, to submit information that addresses the possibility of a blowout and details steps they are taking to prevent blowouts.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: Biologists at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) are closely monitoring what appears to be a new botulism-related bird die-off along the park shoreline. Although the cause of the die-off has yet to be confirmed, all indications point toward another botulism Type E (Avian Botulism)...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: Park Implements Changes Since Big Meadow Fire of 2009.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: Your skin tone and the amount of sunshine you receive-in addition to what foods you eat-all can influence the amount of vitamin D that your body has on hand for optimum health. In a preliminary and apparently first-of-its-kind study, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research physiologist Charles B. Stephensen and colleagues have developed a preliminary model that predicts an individual's vitamin D requirements.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: As a special experience for the visiting public and local communities, the National Park Service will be offering Full Moon Tours of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse the evening of June 26. Two tours will be given, one at 8:30 p.m. and a second at 9:30 p.m., each tour is limited to 30 people. Tickets must...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Steve Bless joins the Glacier National Park staff for the 2010 summer as part of the Teacher-to-Ranger-to-Teacher (TRT) program. Mr. Bless works as a Library and Technology teacher at Roadrunner Elementary School in Marana, Arizona, near Tucson. He credits his connection to Saguaro National Park as his motivation to work at Glacier this summer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today applauded unanimous Senate passage of fully-paid-for legislation to reverse a 21 percent payment cut for doctors in Medicare and TRICARE and update the flawed physician payment formula...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: Bajram Asllani, 29, a resident of Mitrovica, Kosovo, has been charged in a criminal complaint with providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad, David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; George E.B. Holding, U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Housing and Urban Development Inspector General (HUD-OIG) Kenneth M. Donohue, and other members of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force today announced the results of a nationwide takedown, Operation Stolen Dreams, which targeted mortgage fraudsters throughout the country and is the largest collective enforcement effort ever brought to bear in confronting mortgage fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Gregory Alan Roberts, a resident of Fairfax County and Loudoun County, Va., pleaded guilty to failing to timely file income tax returns for the years 2003 and 2004, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: Pedro Antonio Bermudez, also known as “El Arquitecto,” was arraigned Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., following his extradition on June 15, 2010, from Mexico to the United States on charges of participating in an international drug trafficking conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney ...
