News from June 2011
By DOT News Wire | Jun 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published an eight page rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2011
The US Labor Department published a two page rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 8, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 8, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - In April 2011, five students from Bigfork High School Cave Club (Bigfork, MT) and their sponsor spent a week with Grand Canyon National Park Hydrologist and Cave Resources Manager, Steve Rice, conducting cave resource inventories, impact analysis, and repeat photography of several backcountry cave sites.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - With America’s debt over $14 trillion and climbing, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today called on Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment to rein in the nation’s ever-mounting national debt during a speech on the Senate floor. Hatch...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement on news of a major oil/gas discovery in the offshore Gulf of Mexico. The Committee has held hearings in the last month regarding the 2010 spill response effects on the Gulf economy, and on Obama Administration policies impacting domestic energy production.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In support of President Obama's goal of generating 80% of the country's electricity from clean energy sources by 2035, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the availability of up to $70 million in new funding over three years for technology advancements in...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: Photographer Drew Bedo of Rosenberg, Texas developed a strong connection to Rocky after a summer's work at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park. Although legally blind, he creates fine-art images with traditional films in vintage and antique view cameras. For him, photography is more than a creative...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - Nineteen individuals have been charged in two separate, but related, indictments with violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - As part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s ongoing efforts to examine progress in Afghanistan, Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today released a report that evaluates how the United States is spending civilian assistance in Afghanistan. The United States currently spends more on aid ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2011 - On Thursday, June 9th House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) will join Alaska Governor Sean Parnell and Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Chairman Don Young (AK) for a day-long tour that will include visits to the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the Trans Alaskan Pipeline System (TAPS), the Native village of Kaktovik, and a discussion of the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: Glimpse of the Past June 16, 2011.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced special relief for certain F-1 Libyan students who have suffered severe economic hardship as a direct result of the civil unrest in Libya since February 2011. This relief applies only to students who were lawfully present in the United States in F-1 status on Feb. 1, 2011, and enrolled in an institution that is certified by ICE's Student and Exchange Visitor Program.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: PORTLAND - The Oregon/Washington Bureau of Land management (BLM) has updated their “Challenges & Opportunities" map and Website to include even more information than before. The most significant map changes include a new category of “BLM Priority Wind Projects" and a new Geographic Information Systems...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that federal, state, and local agents arrested eight Norteño gang members or associates yesterday on drug trafficking charges and served nine federal search...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: Joan Anzelmo, a native of Washington, D.C., graduate of the University of Maryland, and a 35-year career public servant with the National Park Service, has announced her plans to retire on July 1st from her position as superintendent of Colorado National Monument, where she has served since May 2007.
