News from May 2010
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: It is Arson Awareness Week, and the National Volunteer Fire Council is teaming up with the U.S. Fire Administration to focus attention on the horrific crime of arson and provide communities with tools and strategies to combat arson in their neighborhoods, businesses, schools, and places of worship. The...
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: "Since retaking the majority in 2007, the Democratic Congress has strengthened homeland security".
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: Liberty Island, New York, NY - The National Park Service (NPS) and cadets from the United States Military Academy today demonstrated a new rescue device designed to evacuate injured or sick visitors down the steep double-helix steps that wind up and down inside the Statue of Liberty. A senior project...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - The House of Representatives today passed bipartisan legislation to help speed Haiti’s economic recovery following the devastating January earthquake that shattered the country’s economy. H.R. 5160, The Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act expands duty-free access to the U.S. market...
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - At today’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member, made the following statement regarding the recent attempted bombing in New York City, which was thwarted, and the ongoing strategies to protect the United States from future terrorist plots.
By State Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C.-- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and Ranking Member Dick Lugar (R-IN) today issued statements applauding Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), for reestablishing the bureau for policy, planning, and learning ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (R-WA) and Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) today released the following statements on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: Colorado National Monument is being featured as a “National Park Getaway" on the National Park Service’s national website beginning May 5 until May 12 at www.nps.gov. Millions of website visitors will see a stunning photo of the Monument by Grand Junction’s famed photographer, Rob Kurtzman, with a corresponding story about the Monument authored by Eric Sandstrom, a seasonal park ranger at Colorado National Monument and Mesa State College instructor.
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced today that the Committee approved nine nominations en bloc this afternoon to fill positions at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the Department of Education, the Department...
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: Using herbicides to sterilize rather than to kill weedy grasses might be a more economical and environmentally sound weed control strategy, according to a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and a cooperator.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore is currently accepting applications for the Snowy Plover Docent Program for the summer of 2010. Snowy Plover Docents help protect threatened nesting snowy plovers from disturbance by contacting park visitors on the beach and informing them about the seasonal beach closure...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2010 - Over two months after Republicansrequested missing pages and information regarding the Obama Administration’s “Treasured Landscape" document that details plans to designate new national monuments, the Department of Interior (DOI) last night released just 383 pages of emails.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2010
News Release: The victim of a 1,000 foot fall from Scout Lookout in Zion National Park has been identified as Regine Milobedzki, age 63 of Upland, California. Scout Lookout is a popular viewpoint located along the West Rim Trail at the junction with the route to Angels Landing.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2010
News Release: Teacher quality was the subject of a hearing before the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee this afternoon, with experts underscoring the critical role of effective teachers in improving student academic achievement. Republicans have identified “letting teachers teach" as a core principle for education reform.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today joined Mexican Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez-Mont at the Brookings Institution to deliver remarks on the ongoing and groundbreaking ways that the United States and Mexico are working together to make the Southwest border region more secure and prosperous.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2010
News Release: "At approximately 11:45 P.M. EDT, Faisal Shahzad was taken into custody. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and detectives of the New York City Police Department arrested Shahzad for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1, 2010. Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2010
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the allocation of 33 new Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) positions to 21 judicial districts that contain Indian Country. The department has also launched three Indian Country Community Prosecution Teams. These new resources will enable the Justice Department to work with tribal and state law enforcement partners to improve public safety in tribal communities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Inc. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation have agreed to pay $72.5 million to resolve civil False Claims Act allegations arising from the marketing of the cystic fibrosis drug TOBI, the Justice Department announced today. The settlement resolves allegations ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON—Washington Beef LLC, the operator of a large slaughterhouse in Toppenish, Wash., has agreed to pay a $750,000 civil penalty and will install several pieces of new waste water treatment equipment that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates will cost approximately $3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department and EPA announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON— The Boeing Company has agreed to undertake two significant habitat restoration projects in Washington state to resolve its liability for natural resource damages caused by hazardous substances released from Boeing facilities along the Duwamish Waterway, the Justice Department and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today.
