News from August 2011
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2011
News Release: North Unit Scenic Drive Closed. A portion of the North Unit Scenic Drive in Theodore Roosevelt National Park has been closed due to continued slumping. The road from Caprock Coulee to Oxbow Overlook is closed because a section of road in the Cedar Canyon area has been compromised and is slumping and...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2011
News Release: “NLRB’s action in the case against Boeing has the potential to create a job-killing precedent just as U.S. manufacturers are working toward economic recovery. That a Washington, D.C.-based bureaucracy could dictate the work location and parameters for a world-leading company is unprecedented in a global economy and hobbles a leading American job creator at a time of economic vulnerability," Issa said.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee and a senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement praising today's announcement of the first-ever fuel economy and carbon pollution standards...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. -The 50-year old hiker from St. Paul, Minnesota that was attacked by a grizzly bear on Friday, August 5 was treated and released on Friday, and continued with his travel itinerary. His injuries, bites to his left thigh and left forearm, were not life threatening.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 8, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2011
News Release: On August 21st, Biscayne National Park will celebrate the National Park Service’s 95th birthday with cake, educational art activities for the kids, and a “meet and greet" book signing with Janeen Mason, the illustrator and author behind the "Ocean Commotion" book series and the park’s current art exhibit Drawn to the Sea. The free event takes place at the park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center, located 9 miles east of Homestead, Florida at 9700 SW 328 Street.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2011
News Release: On a hot July 30th, over 625 people of all ages beat the summer heat by leisurely floating along a six mile section of the Chattahoochee River, from Morgan Falls Dam to Powers Island, for the 2011 Chattahoochee River Summer Splash. The annual event was free to the public and was hosted by the Chattahoochee...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings issued the following statement in response to Chairman Darrell Issa’s subpoena to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for documents regarding its complaint against the Boeing Corporation.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC-On August 8, 2011 Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Edward J. Markey, Diana DeGette, and Rush Holt sent a letter to the EPA urging the agency to craft a definition of "diesel fuel" for its upcoming guidance on permitting hydraulic fracturing activities that is broad enough to protect human health and require permitting for all diesel fuels, including those that contain benzene and other toxic components.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2011
News Release: SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. - The National Park Service has suspended the search for a 25-year-old man who went missing this morning while swimming in Lake Mohave. He is now presumed drowned.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The New Water Fire was fully contained today at 6:00 p.m. All resources with the exception of two engines have been released from the fire. A transfer of command from the type III organization back to the host units occurred at 6:00 p.m. today. The fire will remain in a monitor status until controlled and eventually is declared out.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2011
News Release: Hormiz David was One of Three Hikers Witnessed Plunging Over Vernal Fall on July 19, 2011.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - A type III incident management organization continues working to suppress the New Water Fire which include lands within the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, as well as lands managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs -Truxton Cañon Agency, the Bureau of Land Management - Kingman...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after Standard & Poor’s announced a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 NEW YORK—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas in New York City and participated in a special naturalization ceremony for 10 members ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Lakeisha Pearson from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The government’s civil injunction complaint alleges that Pearson of Birmingham, Ala., operated under the trade names “LGS Tax Service,” ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON—Joel Esquenazi and Carlos Rodriguez, former executives of Terra Telecommunications Corp., have been convicted by a federal jury on all counts for their roles in a scheme to pay bribes to Haitian government officials at Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M (Haiti Teleco), a state-owned telecommunications company. The jury reached its verdict yesterday after five hours of deliberations, following a two-and-a-half-week trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury today convicted five officers from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) on 25 counts in connection with the federal prosecution of a police-involved shooting on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina and an extensive cover-up of those shootings, the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Robert Colbert, of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges of conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar today announced a new federal framework to assist American Indian and Alaska Native communities in achieving their goals in the prevention, intervention and treatment of alcohol and substance abuse.
