News from April 2011
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: No need to make plane reservations to visit a national park during national park week 2011. You do not even have to drive a car, the South Shore Line train goes to Chicago’s closest national park everyday: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Make healthy plans to come on out to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service invites you to take advantage of the many recreational opportunities available at Death Valley National Park free of charge in honor of National Park Week, April 16-24, 2011. All 394 National Park units will waive entrance fees each day of the period. Entrance fees typically...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: BOSTON, MA. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Boston attorney, charging him with money laundering.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: A newly identified chemical sex attractant, or pheromone, of the emerald ash borer could mean improved traps for monitoring and controlling the tree-killing beetle. That's the goal of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist Allard Cossé and his colleagues.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Subsistence Division will be surveying a random sample of Copper Center and Silver Springs residents during April about their subsistence activities. The information collected will help state and federal agencies to better manage subsistence. The survey will kick off with a public information meeting at the NPS Visitor Center in Copper Center on Thursday, April 14, starting at 7 PM.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Committee Member Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., Thursday heard testimony directly from the frontlines of the struggle to secure the southern border.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, April 7, 2011 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that Washington State University will develop and run the People's Garden School Pilot Program which will serve an estimated 2,800 students attending 70 elementary schools in Washington, New York, Iowa and Arkansas. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee issued the following statement, as prepared for delivery, today at a Subcommittee hearing on the pending South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA)...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Contrary to its claim, the Republican budget fails to address the perennial cycle of payment cuts facing Medicare physicians and beneficiaries at the end of every year. At the end of 2011, payments to physicians in Medicare will be cut by 29.5 percent for 2012 and the reductions will...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: NEW HAVEN, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Field Division and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and announced that 13 individuals were arrested today for their alleged involvement in a New Haven-area prescription narcotics trafficking ring.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: Media Contact: Liz Friedlander. 202-225-1564, U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., made the following statement after the House of Representatives approved the Energy Tax Prevention Act (H.R. 910). Peterson is an original co-sponsor of H.R. 910. “This bill hits...
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today’s committee hearing entitled “Reforming the United Nations: The Future of U.S. Policy"...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches are being managed under the terms of the U.S. District Court approved consent decree. Park visitors can expect to see resource closures for breeding shorebirds in effect to varying degrees from mid-March to mid-to-late-August and sea turtle nesting closures may...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials today held a hearing on railroad and hazardous materials transportation programs in preparation for drafting a surface transportation reauthorization bill.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: Contacts: Ed Cummins, Montezuma Castle National Monument, 928-567-3322 ext. 227, e-mail us.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: The NPS has been studying coho and sockeye salmon in the Bartlett River for several years to determine the feasibility of different salmon escapement estimation methods. Turbid water conditions make fish counts and identification very difficult. Because the number of sockeye and coho salmon spawning...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: BUDGET REALITY CHECK. Republicans Work to Avert Government Shutdown, Make Necessary Spending Cuts . Earlier in the Week, Top Democrat Insists “We’re Not Broke". CHECK THE NUMBERS. U.S. national debt hits $14.25 trillion. U.S. deficit projected at $1.6 Trillion. CHECK THE VOTE. 175 Democrats Vote NO on...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) introduced the “Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2011," H.R. 1409, in an effort to improve the quality of patient care by leveling the playing field between health care professionals and insurance companies in the health care industry.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2011
News Release: U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) and U.S. Representatives Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Secretary Gary Gensler, and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Schapiro yesterday urging them to provide an exemption from margin requirements for end-user transactions.
