News from August 2011
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park rangers want those who attempt the Keyhole Route on Longs Peak to have realistic expectations of the challenges they will face to summit the 14,259 foot mountain. New informative materials, to help people plan and prepare for their climb, have been posted on the park’s website...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released the following statement in response to the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) failure to fully comply with the committee’s subpoena issued August 7, 2011...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law H.R. 2715, a bill to provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission with greater authority and discretion in enforcing consumer product safety laws. The legislation makes immediate and targeted changes to a flawed 2008 law that would have forced...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Two popular hiking trails within Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park will reopen for day use on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, once new safety signage and hiker registration stations are in place. Park management temporarily closed Naulu and Napau trails Aug. 3, 2011 to evaluate potential hazards caused by a new eruption along the west flank of Kilauea's Pu`u `O`o vent.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law H.R. 2715, a bill to provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission with greater authority and discretion in enforcing consumer product safety laws. The legislation makes immediate and targeted changes to a flawed 2008 law that would have forced...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) released the following statements after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the individual mandate included in President Obama’s health care law unconstitutional...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled the individual mandate in the Democrats’ health care law unconstitutional...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. Officials at Glacier National Park announced that public scoping has begun for a proposal to expand the Apgar Transit Center parking lot, improve parking at Apgar Village, and relocate visitor center operations to the Apgar Transit Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Under the terms of a settlement filed today in federal court, the city of Newport has agreed to eliminate illegal discharges of sewage into Narragansett Bay from its wastewater treatment plant and wastewater collection system. The city has also agreed to take actions to reduce the pollutants ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that three men were charged for their role in intentionally attempting to intimidate and interfere with African-American students who were attending Beekman Junior High School in Beekman, Morehouse Parish, La.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Thomas W. Richardson of Mansfield, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government property and one count of aggravated identity theft before the Honorable Jane J. Boyle in Dallas, the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Virginia woman pleaded guilty today in relation to a staged kidnapping in Guatemala, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Miami Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that Kirby Dollar, 37, a former detective with the Russell County Sheriff’s Office, pleaded guilty in federal court in Montgomery, Ala., for his role in the assault of a handcuffed man.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the issuance of a Prompt Corrective Action Directive against Bank of the Eastern Shore (PDF), Cambridge, Maryland, a state-chartered member bank dated August 8, 2011.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank issued the following statement today on the release of the June 2011 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report by the Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Today's report showed that U.S. exports of ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: CommerceConnect business assistance initiative in Baltimore is 17th expansion this fiscal year, exceeding initial target of 16 Following the launch of its Michigan office last September, the U.S. Commerce Department’s CommerceConnect is expanding into Baltimore, Md. The 17th expansion this fiscal year, the Baltimore initiative exceeds CommerceConnect’s initial goal of deploying services in 16 communities across the country.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: SANDY, Utah – As part of continuing educational efforts by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration about the dangers of extreme heat, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced the release of a free application for mobile devices that will enable workers and supervisors to monitor the heat index at their work sites in order to prevent heat-related illnesses.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2011
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending August 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 395,000, a decrease of 7,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 402,000. The 4-week moving average was 405,000, a decrease of 3,250 from the previous week's revised average of 408,250.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 11, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page rule on Aug. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
