News from August 2011
By DOT News Wire | Aug 4, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Aug. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 4, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Aug. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 4, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Aug. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 4, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a six page rule on Aug. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 4, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Aug. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Everglades National Park firefighters continue to manage a wildfire (Afternoon Fire) that began Monday in the northeast sector of the park. Units from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Florida Forest Service have provided additional resources to support this effort.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in support of President Obama’s initiative to prevent mass atrocities and impose consequences on serious human rights violations.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have developed a fully cooked food-aid product called Instant Corn Soy Blend that supplements meals, particularly for young children. The work was led by food technologist Charles Onwulata at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Dairy Processing and Products Research Unit at the agency's Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC) in Wyndmoor, Pa.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 raw and refined sugar tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), an extension of the FY 2012 raw sugar TRQ time period, and an increase in the FY 2011 specialty sugar TRQ.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Peter E. Warshaw, the Prosecutor for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, announced the arrests of numerous members of a racketeering network responsible for the distribution...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 174,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 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 Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) applauded the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcement today that the premiums seniors pay for prescription drug coverage in the Medicare Part D program decreased this year, for the first time since 2007. Baucus was a chief architect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the health reform law which instituted many of the provisions that helped bring down seniors’ out-of-pocket costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: -. PHOENIX, AZ. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Dennis K. Burke, announced today that Walgreens Arizona Drug Co., on behalf of its wholly owned retail pharmacy in Show Low, Ariz., has agreed to pay the federal government...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: TACOMA, WASH. - On Aug. 3, 2011, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with the assistance of the Clark-Skamania Drug Task Force seized over 16 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and executed multiple search warrants in Vancouver, Wash. Ricardo Estrada, 43, of Vancouver, Wash., and Francisco Cervantes, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Much to the chagrin of House Republican naysayers, health reform is improving care for seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare while reducing their out-of-pocket costs.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C.- U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today released the following statement after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced, subject to Senate approval, a proposal to move the process forward that would end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today made the following joint statement regarding Trade Adjustment Assistance...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Officials at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park reopened Chain of Craters Road at 4 p.m. today, after a 24-hour closure resulting from new eruptive activity at Kīlauea volcano's Pu'u 'Ō'ō crater. Park rangers are stationed near sea level at the bottom of Chain of Craters Road, at Pu'u Huluhulu and at Jaggar Museum to inform visitors of the latest conditions and best viewing opportunities.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - At approximately 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, August 4, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center began receiving multiple requests for emergency assistance near Mojave Point, located on Hermit Road on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
