News from September 2010
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy has signed final cooperative agreements with the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and Ameren Energy Resources that formally commit $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to build FutureGen 2.0. The FutureGen 2.0...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Cigarettes are the most frequent cause of fatalities from residential fires in the United States. So, it might seem surprising to learn that a cigarette that burns stronger than others has been used for decades by manufacturers of home furnishings to test the fire resistance of their products. Making...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: National Park Service volunteers portraying Confederate sailors of the James River Squadron will be camped at historic Drewry’s Bluff (7600 Fort Darling Road in Chesterfield County) on Saturday, October 2 and Sunday, October 3. Special programs will include demonstrations of loading the fort's heavy...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: During the October lectures, Dr. Hunter Lenihan, a distinguished researcher with the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), will discuss his effective collaborations with local fishermen to protect California spiny lobster and nearshore rockfish populations at the Channel Islands.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Palo Alto Battlefield was established to tell the story of the U.S.-Mexican War. But in the near future, the park will be dealing with Reconstruction--at least at its Visitor Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today urged President Obama to remove obstacles to U.S. agricultural and medical exports to Cuba. In a letter signed by Baucus and 23 other Democratic and Republican Senators, Baucus also advocated for lifting the current travel ban, allowing U.S. citizens and legal residents to travel to Cuba.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) convened a hearing today to look at problems that employees experience when filing for disability under long-term disability insurance policies covered under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Baucus questioned...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter today to the Inspector General for the Health and Human Services (HHS) Daniel Levinson asking that he “initiate an investigation to determine if FDA employees…have purposely and improperly...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) will award a five-year cooperative agreement totaling $15 million to the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, Md., to develop and implement a Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Fellow...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: While refining their novel method for making nanoscale wires, chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) discovered an unexpected bonus-a new way to create nanowires that produce light similar to that from light-emitting diodes (LEDs). These "nano-LEDs" may one day have their light-emission abilities put to work serving miniature devices such as nanogenerators or lab-on-a-chip systems.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - After holding a hearing this July of the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight that revealed the possibility of thousands of unmarked or improperly marked gravesites, Subcommittee Chairman Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Ranking Member Scott Brown (R-MA), joined by Senators Joseph...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Scientists have long known that time passes faster at higher elevations-a curious aspect of Einstein's theories of relativity that previously has been measured by comparing clocks on the Earth's surface and a high-flying rocket. Now, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Dairy farmers can greatly reduce ammonia emissions from their production facilities by injecting liquid manure into crop fields below the soil surface, according to research by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the “Strengthen and Vitalize Enforcement of Child Support (SAVE Child Support) Act." This legislation will give states the tools they need to collect child support from parents who do not pay their support orders.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the International Association of Fire Fighters have prepared an educational resource for fire chiefs, firefighters, and public officials to summarize and explain the key results of a landmark study on the effect of the size of firefighting crews on the ability of the fire service to protect lives and property in residential fires.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today 181 Members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging the President to address China’s unfair trade practices that benefit its green technology manufacturers to the detriment of their America competitors.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley said the bill that Senate leaders tried to sell as somehow having the potential to create American jobs would, in fact, “have resulted in a net decrease in American jobs.".
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, with jurisdiction over Medicare, today made the following comment on news that Harvard Pilgrim Health Care will drop its Medicare Advantage health insurance program.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2010
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
