News from April 2011
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: Eating raw or undercooked mollusks may pose a safety hazard if they are harvested from waters polluted with pathogenic microbes, so U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are studying ways to enhance the food safety of these popular shellfish.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy, co-owners of Santa Cruz Island, continue to partner to protect and restore the island ecosystem. The Pelican Harbor nest is on The Nature Conservancy property. For more information visit: www.nature.org/eagles.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation today announced the schedule for high-flow releases from Lewiston Dam into the Trinity River as part of the Trinity River Restoration Program. The official water year designation for the Trinity River is "wet." The water allocation for restoration-related flow releases associated with a wet water year is 701,000 acre-feet.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: Loop Road is Open!. The scenic 7-mile loop road at Craters of the Moon National Monument on Highway 20/26/93, 18 miles west of Arco, is now clear of snow and open to automobile traffic. Access to most campsites and trails remains difficult at the current time due to snow and ice. All caves are also closed...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- Tomorrow, April 20, 2011, will be the one year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement while conducting field hearings on regulatory impediments to job creation in California...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: Zion National Park is currently conducting a search for two missing hikers. Evgenia Bruzulukova, 25 from Roy, Utah and Jonathon Wilson, 28 from Portland, Oregon, had a backcountry permit for a one day trip through Russell Gulch and the Left Fork of North Creek (The Subway) on Saturday, April 16. This area is located near the Kolob Terrace Road in the park approximately 15 miles north of Virgin, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is this Saturday, April 30th. More than 5,300 sites nationwide have joined the effort that seeks to prevent pill abuse and theft. This is hundreds more sites than were established for the event last fall. The free event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report entitled "Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Faces Challenges in Modernizing Information Technology" (OIG-11-69)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: ATLANTA, GA. - A few weeks prior to the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back (Saturday, April 30, 2011) more than 4,700 (hundreds more sites than were established for the event last fall) nationwide have joined the effort that seeks to prevent pill abuse...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: Berlin, Maryland - Superintendent Trish Kicklighter today announced the return of an annual visitor to Assateague Island National Seashore - the Piping Plover. This small, melodious shorebird is threatened with extinction due to the loss of its natural beach breeding habitat along much of the East Coast.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: FOX NEWS - Lou Dobbs Discusses EPA’s Admission That Jobs Don’t Matter
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee have sent letters to the top interest groups, lobbying associations, and companies involved in the closed-door negotiations during the writing of the massive health care law. The letters are the next phase of an investigation that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: BEAUMONT, TX - A 29-year-old Warren, Texas, woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: SALINAS, CA- The Environmental Protection Agency is “engaging in a disturbing ‘sue and settle’ strategy" according to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. who held an oversight forum today in Salinas, California assessing the impact EPA actions have had on farmers and growers in his home state.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: FOX NEWS - Lou Dobbs Discusses EPA’s Admission That Jobs Don’t Matter
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - In recognition of the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Coast on April 20, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: BOISE, IDAHO - - James Roy O'Neill, 49, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to fifteen years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana. O'Neill was also sentenced to fifteen years for conspiracy to launder money. The sentences will run concurrent to each other.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee have sent letters to the top interest groups, lobbying associations, and companies involved in the closed-door negotiations during the writing of the massive health care law. The letters are the next phase of an investigation that...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement commemorating the 16th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing and those who lost their lives...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce a community poetry reading from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 30th at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center on Sullivan’s Island. The free public reading will be conducted by South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth, who has served as Poet-In- Residence...
