News from December 2011
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders on the Energy and Commerce Committee continue to raise concerns regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending Utility MACT rule. Recent analyses conclude this new rule, together with other EPA pending or recently finalized power sector rules, will threaten the reliability...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation by a vote of 234 to 193 that extends payroll tax cuts, but contains unrelated provisions that will have devastating impacts on the health and safety of the American people and the environment. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and other Committee members issued the following statement on the environmental riders to H.R. 3630...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today urged support for the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, citing its ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs during a time of record unemployment. “The same day we are voting to extend unemployment benefits, we are actually doing something about jobs for the people that are unemployed," said Upton.
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: Washington DC - Ranking Member Howard L. Berman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee made the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked the nomination of Mari Carmen Aponte as permanent US Ambassador to El Salvador...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expressed disbelief and concern with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Gregory Jaczko’s apparent coordinated efforts with lawmakers to malign the independent agency’s four commissioners. Full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: MF Global Customers Affected by Firm’s Collapse Also Testify at Senate Agriculture Committee Hearing
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today made the following statement during House consideration of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (H.R. 3630):
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expressed disbelief and concern with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Gregory Jaczko’s apparent coordinated efforts with lawmakers to malign the independent agency’s four commissioners. Full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders on the Energy and Commerce Committee continue to raise concerns regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending Utility MACT rule. Recent analyses conclude this new rule, together with other EPA pending or recently finalized power sector rules, will threaten the reliability...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today made the following opening statement before an oversight hearing on the MF Global bankruptcy...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Dec. 13, 2011 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) If someone told you that there was scientific proof that if you drove down a certain street, you would kill multiple people -- you would stop and not go there. Well, by stopping the clean boiler rule from going ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders on the Energy and Commerce Committee continue to raise concerns regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending Utility MACT rule. Recent analyses conclude this new rule, together with other EPA pending or recently finalized power sector rules, will threaten the reliability...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today made the following statement during House consideration of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (H.R. 3630):
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today made the following statement during House consideration of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (H.R. 3630):
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2011
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center (NTNFC), within the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), held the first annual Nuclear Forensics Undergraduate Scholars Research Presentation Meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Dec. 12, 2011.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today unveiled new Spanish-language Public Service Announcements (PSAs) for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) "If You See Something, Say Something™" public ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today met with Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to discuss the ongoing partnership between the United States and Canada to strengthen border security and information sharing capabilities to better combat cross-border crime, while expediting legitimate trade and travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Wright Brothers Construction Co., of Charleston, Tenn., and the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) have agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty and spend more than $1.3 million to offset environmental damages to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — A Virginia contractor pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to steer contracts to him for repair, maintenance and renovation work at healthcare and nursing home facilities owned by Medical Facilities of America Inc. (MFA), the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Eddye Lovely of Tomball, Texas, pleaded guilty today to three counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Lovely appeared before U.S. District Judge Nancy F. Atlas in Houston.
