News from June 2011
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: Wilderness Hike to Focus on Petrified Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: TACOMA, WASH.- - Jose Manuel Campos Pineda, 34, of Spanaway, Washington was sentenced last week to ten years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Pineda was indicted along with 25 other defendants as part of “Project Deliverance," a Drug Enforcement (DEA) led investigation of a heroin trafficking ring that delivered large amounts of heroin and methamphetamine from the Mexican cartels to street level customers in the Tacoma area.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: On the weekend of July 9th and 10th, Fort Stanwix National Monument will host a Summer Family Fun Encampment. This unique overnight event will provide adults and their children the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities, learn about family life on the frontier, and camp at Fort Stanwix. Due...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are demanding answers from Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on the agency’s sending millions of taxpayer dollars overseas. Over the past decade, nearly $100 million has been handed out by the EPA to foreign governments and organizations.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are demanding answers from Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on the agency’s sending millions of taxpayer dollars overseas. Over the past decade, nearly $100 million has been handed out by the EPA to foreign governments and organizations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released “Meet Your Oversight Watchdogs: Rep. Mike Kelly, " the seventh in a series of videos introducing committee members to the American people. Rep. Kelly serves the people of Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District both...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: By combining advanced laser technologies in a new way, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have generated microwave signals that are more pure and stable than those from conventional electronic sources. The apparatus could improve signal stability and resolution in radar, communications and navigation systems, and certain types of atomic clocks.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are demanding answers from Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on the agency’s sending millions of taxpayer dollars overseas. Over the past decade, nearly $100 million has been handed out by the EPA to foreign governments and organizations.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: A new book, In Homage to Worthy Ancestors: The Puritan, The Pilgrim, with contributions by leading Saint-Gaudens scholars, brings the story of two iconic American sculptures to life. Published in June, 2011, the 112 page book is extensively illustrated with both black and white and color photographs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new overview of climate indicators and impacts on America and the world show an increasingly unstable and unpredictable worldwide weather system that includes hotter weather, more precipitation that falls in increasingly extreme amounts, and continued disturbing levels of ice melt at the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today asked the energy experts working for the United States government to justify their bullish claims on natural gas resources and reserves in light of reports in The New York Times indicating skepticism exists within the Energy Information Administration (EIA)...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today asked the Securities and Exchange Commission whether a 2008 rule allowing natural gas companies more flexibility in how they reported on unproven gas reserves had allowed the companies to paint an overly-optimistic picture of their reserves and the industry's...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2011
News Release: Zion National Park will enhance impaired driving enforcement over the Fourth of July weekend through expanded DUI checkpoints and increased road patrols. For too many Americans, the nation’s annual celebration is filled with tragedy, as it is one of the deadliest holidays of the year when it comes to...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2011
News Release: On Sunday, July 3, Steuben Memorial State Historic Site will host a pre-Independence Day family fun day. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. participants are invited to bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the view as they celebrate our nation's birthday like Baron von Steuben had envisioned over 200 years ago with his...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The operator of Morning Star Center, a residential facility located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that provided food and shelter to minors, has been charged with offenses involving the sexual abuse of minors in Haiti, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida and Director John Morton, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An East Hartford, Conn., woman was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz in New Haven, Conn., to 110 months in prison for the sex trafficking of two minor girls in 2009, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David B. Fein for the District of Connecticut.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 24, 2011
News Release: The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting of June 21-22, 2011, will be released at 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, a day earlier than usual. The release date was rescheduled in light of the timing of the House Financial Services Committee hearing on July 13 to receive the Federal Reserve Board's Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a six page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
