News from March 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are expanding their investigation into the Department of Energy’s (DOE) use of stimulus funds, broadening their examination of the department’s $535 million stimulus loan guarantee awarded to Solyndra, Inc. of Fremont, California. Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: BENTON, IL. - Stephen R Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that two women and one man from Mt. Vernon, Illinois, were indicted on crack cocaine charges on March 8, 2011.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: There is currently no lava activity on Kilauea Volcano's east rift. However, a lava flow from the Kamoamoa Eruption has sparked a slow-moving wildfire.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) released the following statement on President Obama’s education speech at Kenmore Middle School...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are expanding their investigation into the Department of Energy’s (DOE) use of stimulus funds, broadening their examination of the department’s $535 million stimulus loan guarantee awarded to Solyndra, Inc. of Fremont, California. Chairman...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are expanding their investigation into the Department of Energy’s (DOE) use of stimulus funds, broadening their examination of the department’s $535 million stimulus loan guarantee awarded to Solyndra, Inc. of Fremont, California. Chairman...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today circulated a bipartisan Dear Colleague letter encouraging House members to protect jobs and the open and free Internet. Reps. Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Dan Boren (D-OK) joined Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today circulated a bipartisan Dear Colleague letter encouraging House members to protect jobs and the open and free Internet. Reps. Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Dan Boren (D-OK) joined Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today circulated a bipartisan Dear Colleague letter encouraging House members to protect jobs and the open and free Internet. Reps. Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Dan Boren (D-OK) joined Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, today requested that the Chief Operating Officers from the top five oil companies appear before the committee to discuss their industry’s updated safety and response efforts following the BP oil spill, and to answer questions on the fair use of America’s public lands and waters for oil drilling. The request was made in a letter to Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service (Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments) is joining all national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees several days in 2011 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in the national parks this year.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - The Department of Energy, through its agent, DLA Energy, has issued a solicitation for new contracts to store two million barrels of ultra low sulfur distillate for the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve in New York Harbor and New England. Offers are due no later than 9:00 a.m. EDT on March 29, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that two men and one woman from Centralia, Illinois, were indicted on heroin and crack cocaine charges on March 8, 2011.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Yesterday, a Cuban court sentenced USAID American contractor Alan Gross to 15 years in prison for distributing satellite communications gear to Cubans in a manner that the court deemed a violation of Cuban law. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement:
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, issued the following statement today in response to ongoing reports about the damage to Japanese nuclear facilities after a historic earthquake and tsunami hit the country on Friday...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, issued the following statement today in response to ongoing reports about the damage to Japanese nuclear facilities after a historic earthquake and tsunami hit the country on Friday...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2011
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski Delivers Weekly Republican Address
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, issued the following statement today in response to ongoing reports about the damage to Japanese nuclear facilities after a historic earthquake and tsunami hit the country on Friday...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – John Jackson, the former mayor of White Hall, Ala., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Walker in U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Ala., to one count of filing a false tax return, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. According to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Jeffrey Tesler, a former consultant to Kellogg, Brown & Root Inc. (KBR) and its joint venture partners, pleaded guilty today in Houston to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to violating the FCPA for his participation in a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian ...
