News from February 2011
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: The City of Roswell, in conjunction with the National Park Service will be holding a public information open house to present alignments options for the proposed Roswell Riverwalk Trail Connection project. Phases IV and V of the Riverwalk Trail (Willeo Road Trail) seek to provide connectivity between the existing trail system on Azalea Drive and Willeo Park located near the Fulton and Cobb County border.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: Colorado National Monument to Slightly Increase Fees Beginning Monday, May 2.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Oil prices reached their highest levels in 29 months today, ensuring continuing sizeable profits for oil companies, yet a bill offered by House Democrats today to revoke unnecessary tax subsidies received a grand total of zero Republican votes. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), whose legislation...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) welcomed today’s announcement by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) that it had issued a permit to Noble Energy to continue work on a well about 70 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced two new fiscal year (FY) 2011 Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to support university and college efforts to build or expand their school’s nuclear science and engineering basic research or education capabilities. Under the Nuclear Energy University...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) welcomed today’s announcement by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) that it had issued a permit to Noble Energy to continue work on a well about 70 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) proposes to construct a new multi-use trail, to include mountain biking, in a previously undeveloped area of Big Bend. The public, organizations, and other agencies are invited to review and comment upon an Environmental Assessment (EA) describing and analyzing the proposal.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) welcomed today’s announcement by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) that it had issued a permit to Noble Energy to continue work on a well about 70 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: Research on Southwestern Cuckoos (aka Roadrunners) Subject of Presentation at Tuzigoot Clarkdale, AZ: A special slide presentation, "Southwestern Cuckoos: a Study in Contrasts", will be held Wednesday, May 5, 1 p.m. in the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center, Clarkdale, Az. Susan MacVean, a biologist with Arizona Game and Fish, will describe the natural history and conservation of these animals, members of one of the largest and most diverse families of birds.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America is now accepting applications for the summer 2011 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). The YCC is a summer employment program for young men and women, ages 15-18, who work and learn together on projects that further the development and conservation of the natural and cultural resources of the.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after the Obama Administration falsely claimed that it is providing states with more flexibility under the $2.6 trillion health law...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) toured the Port of Cartagena, the busiest container port in Colombia, on Saturday and stressed the importance of effective customs enforcement and counternarcotics. Baucus met with representatives of Colombia’s Anti-Narcotics Police...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee today released “Dirty Work," a comprehensive report on the anti-environment and anti-clean energy attacks in H.R 1, the House Republicans’ recently-passed yearly spending bill. The report, created at the direction of Democratic...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.), the Ranking Democrat on the Natural Resource Committee's Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee asked Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for more information about the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," on federal lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. Baucus told President Santos he is committed to passing the U.S. - Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as soon as possible this year. He also talked with President Santos about...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of continued efforts to close the chapter on allegations that discrimination occurred at U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in past decades, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Tony West today announced the establishment of a process to resolve the claims of women and Hispanic farmers and ranchers who assert that they were discriminated against when seeking USDA farm loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Patrick Carney of Manchester, N.H., was sentenced today in the Western District of Pennsylvania to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with United Regional Health Care System of Wichita Falls, Texas, that prohibits it from entering into contracts that improperly inhibit commercial health insurers from contracting with United Regional’s competitors. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – William F. Murphy, 51, of West Roxbury, Mass., was sentenced today to 10 years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for a child pornography offense, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz and Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2011
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis today released the second estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) for the fourth quarter of 2010. Real GDP grew 2.8 percent at an annual rate, less than expectations and revised down from the 3.2-percent advance estimate. The downward revision reflects a wider trade deficit, reduced state and local government spending, and lower personal consumption.
