News from June 2010
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) will recognize some of its most innovative scientists and research partners at the agency's Technology Transfer Awards Program here today. These awards recognize individuals or groups who have done outstanding work in transferring technology to users outside ARS, the principal intramural scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Grassley today asked the Treasury secretary and IRS commissioner for an accounting of what U.S. government officials have done with information provided more than three years ago by a whistleblower regarding tax evasion. The U.S. Department of Justice acknowledged that former...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: Donald L. Suarez. Click the image for 300 dpi. Laboratory Director Donald L. Suarez of Riverside, Calif., has been named "Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of 2009" by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for his scientific leadership and discoveries in effective water resource management. ARS...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: The text and summary of the substitute amendment to the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act are now available on the legislation page of the Finance Committee Website at...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - The release of the 2010 Glacier National Park Compendium was announced today. The compendium is the park’s collection of rules and regulations. Each year the Superintendent, under his discretionary authority, establishes regulations that designate certain closures, permit requirements...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: A new exhibit entitled “View & Visitors: The Yosemite Experience in the 19th Century," will open to the public on June 16, 2010. The exhibit, in the Yosemite Valley Museum features paintings, prints, artifacts and ephemera from Yosemite’s early years. An exhibit opening reception will be held on June 15 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. located in the Yosemite Valley Museum. There is no cost to attend and food and drink will be served at the reception.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: Although most of the country celebrated International Migratory Bird Day on May 8, Rocky Mountain National Park staff are celebrating this Saturday, June 12. Park rangers will be leading trips from 8:00 a.m. to noon this Saturday. Participants should plan to meet at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center at 8:00 a.m. to get an overview of the morning’s activities and caravan to some good birding spots.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: The third deliberate vandalism act of the 2010 season to a shorebird resource protection area has resulted in an expansion of the closure located 0.9 of a mile south of Ramp 4 on Bodie Island Spit in Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2010 - BREAKING NEWS: Bureau of Land Management officials confirm that the two men found shot to death yesterday near the U.S.-Mexico border were discovered on federal land located in the Sonoran Desert National Monument, not far from where Pinal County Deputy Louie Puroll wasshot last month by a band of suspected smugglers.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Today. (June 8) Glacier National Park officials recognized the Western Federal Lands Program Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Going-to-the-Sun Road Rehabilitation Team for its efforts in protecting and preserving Glacier National Park’s cultural and natural resources while...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: To safely accommodate upwards of 2,400 bicyclists participating in the Ride the Rockies Bicycling Tour, Rim Rock Drive in Colorado National Monument will restrict motorized traffic on Sunday, June 13, between 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. for four miles on the east side of the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded a significant outreach campaign to prevent Medicare fraud announced by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as well as senior officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) has sent a referral and request for investigation to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel regarding Hatch Act violations committed by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina for their participation in the Sestak-Romanoff controversy.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a new report entitled “Enhancing Food Safety: The Role of the Food and Drug Administration." In 2008, ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON--Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., entered the following statement into the record Tuesday on the Presidential Records Act...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) today wrote to BP America Chairman Lamar McKay and asked that BP "provide full access to all video related to the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, including ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: American businesses are the backbone of American innovation and job creation. The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act will provide the tax cuts and certainty American businesses need in order to grow and hire more workers. This bill will give our economy a jump start and help create new job opportunities for American workers.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2010
News Release: Merger of two celebrated nonprofits into Yosemite Conservancy launches a new era in providing for Yosemite National Park.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 DHS performs 100 percent watchlist matching for domestic flights Washington, D.C.—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced that 100 percent of passengers traveling within the United States ...
