News from July 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Border Patrol station in Bisbee, Ariz., will be renamed to honor the memory of agent Brian Terry who died Dec. 15, 2010 after being shot in the line of duty. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced the bill in the House of Representatives July 27.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: Surfactants, which are wetting agents that lower a liquid's surface tension, have a long list of uses, from detergents and cosmetics to paints and pesticides. Most surfactants are petroleum-based. But in Peoria, Ill., a team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists has focused their attention on sophorolipids, surfactant-like molecules produced by naturally occurring yeasts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: EAST HARTFORD, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Terrell Hunter, 29, of Hartford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 126 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for making and distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: ORLANDO, FL. -- - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division and United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Agapito Gonzalez-Ramirez, age 43, of San Benito, Texas, pled guilty today to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute marijuana. Gonzalez-Ramirez faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
Release: Washington, DC, July 28, 2011 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced new investments in New Hampshire and Idaho to help eliminate childhood hunger and improve nutrition and health for school-aged kids. The grants are awarded to the two state agencies to reduce paperwork and expedite certification of students for free meals in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs through a process called direct certification.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: Attention Park Visitors and Local Citizens: The Obed Wild and Scenic River is seeking comments addressing the Non-federal Oil and Gas Management Plan. Please click on the link below to add your comments.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - The Department of Energy has selected four universities to receive grants under the department’s annual competition for fossil energy research ideas from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU/OMI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: -. TUCSON, AZ. - Elias Guerrero-Esquer, 44, of Rio Rico, Ariz., was sentenced on July 21, 2011, to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Frank R. Zapata. Guerrero-Esquer had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and admitted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: ARCHORAGE - Ryan Travis Brown, a resident of Palm Harbor, Florida, pled guilty in federal court on July 27, 2011, to conspiring to distribute 400 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today urged the confirmation of Janice Eberly to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and the reconfirmation of Judges Juan F. Vasquez and Maurice B. Foley to the U.S. Tax Court. At today’s hearing, Baucus said...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced today that Phousangkhy Phanthadeth, aka Phou, age 38, of Fresno, pleaded guilty to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - As weather conditions allow, South Rim fire crews will begin burning piles of woody debris in the vicinity Market Plaza and the Grand Canyon School.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: The Roman philosopher Seneca said, “There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) issued its annual report on national health expenditures for 2010 that found that by 2020, once the partisan health law is fully implemented, one in five dollars of the American economy will be spent on health care, with the health share...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: Shanksville, PA. - On Saturday, July 30 at 1:00 p.m. ET, Flight 93 National Memorial will be the site of a ceremonial planting of three sweet gum trees to mark the arrival of 40 sweet gums generously donated to the memorial by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center site. The Flight 93 National Memorial is located near Shanksville, PA.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following remarks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing considering the nominations of Juan F. Vasquez and Maurice B. Foley to serve as Judges of the U.S. Tax Court and Janice Eberly for the position of Assistant Secretary of Treasury...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved three bipartisian pieces of health legislation: H.R. 2405, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act; H.R. 1254, the Synthetic Drug Control Act; and, H.R. 1852, the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC-Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Rep. Edward Markey released a fact sheet that details all 110 anti-environment votes taken by the House of Representatives this year in Congress. The House has voted to block action to address climate change, to stop actions to prevent air and water pollution, to undermine protections for public lands and coastal areas, and to weaken the protection of the environment in dozens of other ways.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan leadership of the Energy and Commerce Committee and its Communications and Technology Subcommittee today released data submitted by the Federal Communications Commission regarding the Universal Service Fund high-cost and low-income support programs. The data was supplied...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - To protect thousands of American jobs and preserve domestic cement manufacturing, bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives today introduced H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. The proposal directs EPA to develop achievable and workable standards...
