News from February 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released “Meet Your Oversight Watchdogs: Rep. Tim Walberg," the first in a series of videos to introduce committee members to the American people. Rep. Walberg serves the people of Michigan’s 7th Congressional District on the Oversight Subcommittees on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service & Labor Policy and Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations & Procurement Reform.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Pacific Northwest farmers could someday be filling up their machinery's tanks with fuels produced from their own fields, according to ongoing research by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- In a little over one year, six projects that received a total of $23.6 million in seed funding from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) have generated more than $100 million in outside private capital investment, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Fort Hood massacre, which left 13 dead and 32 wounded, could have been prevented, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., said Thursday, as they unveiled their report on the November 5, 2009, terrorist attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - John G. McCabe, Jr., the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced five men arrested in a police raid last week on a heroin mill in West New York, N.J., are due in court today to face federal charges.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
Release: New Haven, CT, Feb. 3, 2011 - USDA Deputy Under Secretary Janey Thornton today joined Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District and Chef Timothy Cipriano, Executive Director, New Haven Public School Food Services, and New England Patriots' Ron Brace to unveil a new salad bar at Mauro-Sheridan Science, Technology and Communications School as part of Let's Move! Salad Bars to Schools.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that the Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee will meet Feb. 28 to March 1 in Arlington, Va.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander M. Levin (D-MI) today applauded President Obama’s call to extend and expand energy tax incentives during the President’s appearance in Pennsylvania...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: BOULDER, Colo.-In a paradox typical of the quantum world, JILA scientists have eliminated collisions between atoms in an atomic clock by packing the atoms closer together. The surprising discovery, described in the Feb. 3 issue of Science Express,* can boost the performance of experimental atomic clocks made of thousands or tens of thousands of neutral atoms trapped by intersecting laser beams.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Freshpoint Las Vegas Inc., operating in Las Vegas, Nev., has posted a $50,000 surety bond with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to employ Michelle Iovino, previously named in PACA actions.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Fresh Direct Inc., operating in Rio Rico, Ariz., has posted an $85,000 surety bond with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to employ Rene Grijalva, previously named in PACA actions.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Saturday March 5, 2011 Great Basin National Park will host its annual Winter Star Party Astronomy Night. Traditionally called the Messier Marathon, one of the two times of the year (during the new moon in March and October) that star gazers can see all of the 110 cataloged Messier objects.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: ATLANTA, GA. - In a brief presentation at the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Atlanta Division today, millions of dollars in seized assets from the two-year investigation code-named Operation Four Horsemen were distributed to law enforcement agencies who contributed hours and efforts in the case. The investigation was led by DEA and coordinated through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force program.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) explored the potential for job creation, improved safety and reduced travel delays that could be realized from investments in NextGen, the new, satellite-based air traffic system, at a hearing today. Baucus has long worked to pass...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Calambokidis, co-founder of Cascadia Research, has served as the principal investigator of more than 50 research studies on marine mammals, marine birds, and pollution. He has authored two books and coauthored over 60 papers in scientific journals. Calambokidis is an adjunct faculty member of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on Jan. 26, 2011, BRYANT - MAYBELL -, a/k/a “B," age 25, of Carbondale, Illinois, was convicted by a jury in East St. Louis, Illinois. MAYBELL - was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine. The offense occurred between January, 2005, and February, 2009, in Jackson and Williamson Counties in Southern Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: LAREDO, TX - Eight members of a large scale drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating out of the McAllen, Texas, area from approximately 2004 through 2009 were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 180 to 360 months, without parole, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - A process developed by researchers at the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) that improves the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants while reducing the cost has been selected to receive a 2011 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer.
