News from May 2011
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: June is a great time to visit the park! Temperatures and visitation are comparatively low and wildflowers are at their peak. We also begin our full schedule of ranger guided activities this month and June 21 is a fee free day at all national parks.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today commented on a recent report from the Federal Communications Commission concluding that broadband is not being deployed in a “reasonable and timely" fashion. Section 706 of the Telecommunications...
By State Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the signing of the “Cartagena Accord," which paves the way for Honduras’ readmission to the Organization of American States (OAS) roughly two years after the coup in that country.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch today sent a letter to the governors of all 50 states and the U.S. territories requesting feedback and ideas to improve the Medicaid program. Medicaid consumes nearly a quarter of state government budgets -a significant driver of the current $175 billion collective state budget shortfall.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch today sent a letter to the governors of all 50 states and the U.S. territories requesting feedback and ideas to improve the Medicaid program. Medicaid consumes nearly a quarter of state government budgets -a significant driver of the current $175 billion collective state budget shortfall.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: The City of Harrison and Buffalo National River have entered into a unique partnership to reuse and recycle horse manure. The direct beneficiaries include Buffalo National River and the Harrison Community Garden. The Harrison Community Garden, located on the north side of Highway 62/65, directly across...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 2011 - The Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a hearing tomorrow to examine our domestic supplies of strategic and critical minerals and the growing need to develop our own resources to improve national security and further our energy independence. Critical...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes announced today that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has selected eight construction projects in California for funding under WaterSMART's Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program. Together, these two-year projects will receive $11.34 million, which will be leveraged to help fund construction totaling more than $99 million.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: Beginning Tuesday, May 24th, the portion of Howland Hill Road through Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park will be closed to all vehicle traffic on week days for annual maintenance of the road. This maintenance work is anticipated to take approximately two weeks and the road work is scheduled to be completed by June 4th or sooner. The road will be open on weekends and Memorial Day.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rep. Norm Dicks made the following comments regarding the Majority’s proposed FY2012 Agriculture Appropriations bill.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2011
News Release: Gateway National Recreation Area's Floyd Bennett Field received a replica of the 1911 Ely-Curtiss Pusher Friday, May 20 after the historic aircraft landed to commemorate the Centennial of Naval Aviation. Veteran pilot Bob Coolbaugh, who flew the plane to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, built the replica...
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2011
News Release: Malcom McQuillan, wanted on 22 counts of indecent assault upon a child, was slated to appear in a United Kingdom courtroom in November 1987, but never showed. Shortly afterwards, he entered the United States on a temporary visa, only to evade police for nearly 20 years.
By State Newswire | May 22, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today released the following statement on the situation in Sudan:
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2011
News Release: BOSTON - A Pakistani man arrested in Massachusetts during the investigation into the failed Times Square bombing was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). He arrived in Pakistan on May 22.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Under a settlement agreement lodged today in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware, Caribbean Petroleum Corp., Caribbean Petroleum Refining L.P., and Gulf Petroleum Refining Corp. – Puerto Rico (collectively, CAPECO) will pay more than $8.2 million to address environmental liabilities relating to CAPECO’s former petroleum distribution facility in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, and more than 170 service stations owned or leased by CAPECO throughout Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) prison-based gang pleaded guilty today in federal court to racketeering aggravated assault in the 2008 beating of a gang prospect in Tomball, Texas, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno for the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – At its 10th annual conference in The Hague, the Netherlands, the International Competition Network (ICN) adopted new materials on how to assess market dominance, resolve cartel cases and manage competition projects effectively, the Department of Justice announced today. The organization ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Iowa ready-mix concrete company pleaded guilty to participating in three separate conspiracies to fix prices and/or rig bids for the sales of ready-mix concrete, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON —VeriFone Systems Inc., Hypercom Corp. and Ingenico S.A. have abandoned plans for Hypercom to divest its U.S. point-of-sale (POS) business to Ingenico, the Department of Justice announced today. Their decision to abandon the divestiture came just one week after the department’s Antitrust Division ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today President Barack Obama granted pardons to the following eight individuals: Randy Eugene Dyer – Burien, Wash.
