News from February 2011
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: Region 4 News Release: 11-134-ATL (60)
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: Olympic National Park invites recreational anglers and other interested members of the public to provide input regarding proposed changes to the park's recreational fishing regulations.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement regarding today's quarterly forecast for U.S. agricultural exports, which are expected to reach a record $135.5 billion in fiscal year 2011.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, said that as the Committee begins focusing on the 2012 Farm Bill, she will urge members and stakeholders to first focus on the guiding principles of the Farm Bill, rather than specific programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu seeking answers on the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository. Upton and Shimkus are concerned that despite...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A report released today on “orphaned" and “idle" oil and gas wells raises serious questions as to whether the proper policies exist to protect the environment and American taxpayers from oil companies simply abandoning oil wells without proper cleanup. In response to the report from the...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu seeking answers on the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository. Upton and Shimkus are concerned that despite...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: MIAMI, FL. - DEA Agents, with assistance from its federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, arrested 22 people and seized over $2.2 million in cash and 70 vehicles, including numerous exotic cars, on Wednesday, February 23 in a sweeping takedown of rogue pain clinics in South Florida. These...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today met with Juan Camilo Restrepo, Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture, as well as Sergio Diaz Granados, Colombia’s Minister of Trade, to promote the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and find ways to increase trade between...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, located at 32 Washington Street in Seneca Falls, will reopen for tours beginning Saturday, March 5. Tour times will be 11:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. daily. The house is part of Women's Rights National Historical Park.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu seeking answers on the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository. Upton and Shimkus are concerned that despite...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - According to an FBI press release, a resident of Lubbock, Texas who is a Saudi Arabian citizen, was arrested in Texas on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with his alleged purchase of chemicals and equipment necessary to make an improvised explosive device and his research of potential U.S. targets.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2011
News Release: National Mall and Memorial Parks has created a page to outline major construction projects ongoing within the park boundaries. This is to aid the public in planning their visit more effectively to the Nations Capital.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Key West, Fla.—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today visited U.S. Coast Guard Sector Key West to tour operations, meet with Coast Guard personnel, and receive a briefing on maritime security operations at the Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF)-South—the U.S. Southern Command entity that coordinates integrated interagency counter drug operations.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "I welcome the news that Mexican authorities have apprehended one of the alleged killers of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata. We will continue to assist the ongoing Mexican investigation with every resource at our disposal and to ensure ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Attorney General made the following statement today about the Department’s course of action in two lawsuits, Pedersen v. OPM and Windsor v. United States, challenging Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Attorney General sent the following letter today to Congressional leadership to inform them of the Department’s course of action in two lawsuits, Pedersen v. OPM and Windsor v. United States, challenging Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and a woman. A copy of the letter is also attached.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Marco Parenti Adami, Emanuel Agustino, Michele Bergantino and Roger Schaerer, bankers at an international bank incorporated and with its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, with offices worldwide, including New York City and Miami, were indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has sued two Southern California attorneys and a Kentucky financial professional to bar them from promoting an allegedly abusive tax shelter known as an “intermediary transaction,” the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Camden, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Cardiff Marine Inc, a Liberian-registered shipping company, was sentenced today in federal court in Baltimore after pleading guilty to a felony violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. The company admitted falsifying records of illegal discharges of oily waste from the M/V Capitola ...
