News from January 2011
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Beginning January 9, one ‘click’ will directly benefit America’s national parks by casting a vote for the National Park Foundation in the $1 million Lowe’s Community Giving Campaign. From January 9th through the 21st, the Foundation encourages supporters to vote daily at www.lowes.com/give or www.facebook.com/lowes.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced that Terra Organics LLC, a seed company operating out of Maxwell, Calif., has paid $1,575 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act. The company settled the case in agreement with AMS officials. The company neither admitted nor denied the charges brought against them.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti causing widespread destruction, and killing or injuring hundreds of thousands of residents.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced 2010 tied 2005 as the hottest year on record. Following the hottest decade on record, last year's temperatures continued the upward trend. NOAA's report also warned of more intense flooding, hurricanes and...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Wind Cave National Park will offer free tours at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, Jan. 15, 16, and 17. Visitors will walk along the Garden of Eden Tour Route and view boxwork formations for which the cave is famous. This quarter of a mile tour is moderately strenuous with approximately 150 steps and lasts one hour.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Philadelphia-National Park Service Northeast Regional Director Dennis R. Reidenbach has named Keith Newlin superintendent of the National Parks of Western Pennsylvania, which includes the Flight 93 National Memorial, Johnstown Flood National Memorial, Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, today asked the operator of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System to quantify how much oil may leak from the potentially still-damaged pipeline now that the company has restarted pipeline operations. Rep. Markey...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Nathan G. Pope, 48, of Indianapolis, Ind., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence Monday to conspiracy and transporting an individual across state lines to engage in prostitution, in violation of the Mann Act. Pope and a codefendant, Jan M. Wales, 45, of Indianapolis, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - The National Park Service (NPS) approved a stock use plan January 5, 2011, that allows commercial mule rides to continue at historically high levels in Grand Canyon National Park, but limits rides on some inner canyon trails that have been damaged by mule use. Private stock use remains unchanged from current use levels.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Storing just one inch of water in an acre of soil is worth $25 to $30 per acre. That gets the attention of Central Great Plains farmers served by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today issued this statement following the announcement that the U.S.-Russia Agreement for Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy entered into force:
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Keith Newlin Named Superintendent of. National Parks of Western Pennsylvania. Philadelphia-National Park Service Northeast Regional Director Dennis R. Reidenbach has named Keith Newlin superintendent of the National Parks of Western Pennsylvania, which includes the Flight 93 National Memorial, Johnstown...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement today after the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released its final report...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON-Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Tuesday hailed the signing into law by President Obama of the Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) grants reauthorization bill. The program is a highly effective, cost-saving grants program for state and local governments to help prevent damage due to natural disasters before it happens.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Olympic National Park will join other National Park Service sites throughout the country by offering ‘fee-free days’ January 15-17 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement regarding the final report of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - On Jan. 11, 2011, Harold Eugene Fletcher, 42, owner of the East Main Street Pharmacy in Columbus, plead guilty in U.S. District Court to illegal distribution of the painkiller, oxycodone. He also plead guilty to one count of structuring financial transactions and one count of filing a false income tax return.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement today after the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released its final report...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued guidelines for public water systems across the country on how to monitor and test for the toxic chemical, chromium-6, in drinking water. Water providers currently monitor for total chromium, but not chromium-6. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement on the latest development...
