News from May 2011
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2011
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern States Office administered more than 3,500 Federal onshore mineral leases in FY 2010. Those leases covered approximately 2.25 million acres in 16 of the 31 states east of and bordering the Mississippi River. The BLM Eastern States raises Federal revenue from...
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Tuesday pointed to the progress being made by a border security program that screens travelers who don’t need visas to enter the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2011
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to express our strong support for your commitment to make substantial progress towards conclusion of a Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP") trade agreement by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting in Honolulu in November 2011, and to call to your attention the...
By EPA Newswire | May 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member James M. Inhofe (R-OK) today sent the following letter to the Obama administration urging additional time for public comment on the proposed Utility MACT rule.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - A fully instrumented well that will test innovative technologies for producing methane gas from hydrate deposits has been safely installed on the North Slope of Alaska. As a result, the "Iġnik Sikumi" (Iñupiaq for "fire in the ice") gas hydrate field trial well will be available for field experiments as early as winter 2011-12.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. abandoned their joint bid to acquire NYSE Euronext after the Department of Justice informed the companies that it would file an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal. The department said that the acquisition would have substantially ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that Oddie Tribble, 51, a former deputy sheriff with the Kershaw County, S.C., Sherriff’s Office, was sentenced to 63 month in prison and three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie for using excessive force on a man in his custody on Aug. 5, 2010. Tribble was also ordered to pay restitution of $5,109.25 to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a comprehensive settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with intercity bus service providers Megabus USA L.L.C., and Megabus Northeast L.L.C., which are located in Chicago and Elizabeth, N.J., respectively. The Justice Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that Sean Popejoy, 19, of Green Forest, Ark., pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of committing a federal hate crime and one count of conspiring to commit a federal hate crime. This is the first conviction for a violation of the Matthew Shepard ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today reached a settlement agreement with the Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona, resolving allegations that the district engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against non-citizens in the hiring and employment-eligibility verification ...
By Commerce News Now | May 16, 2011
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today honored 27 companies and organizations that are recipients of the 2011 President’s “E” Award. The “E” Award, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is the highest U.S. government recognition any American entity may receive for supporting export activity.
By Labor Gazette | May 16, 2011
News Release: Proposed penalties total $563,000 LORAIN, Ohio The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited steel manufacturer Republic Engineered Products Inc. in Lorain for seven willful and three repeat safety violations, with proposed penalties totaling $563,000, for failing ...
By Labor Gazette | May 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration tomorrow will reopen the public record on a proposed rule to revise the Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements regulation. Notice of the reopening will be published May 17 in the Federal Register.
By Labor Gazette | May 16, 2011
News Release: CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. — The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and order to restore $41,093 to the employee benefit plan of now-defunct Dalton Mechanical Services Inc., formerly located in Clarks Summit. The action resolves a lawsuit filed by the department in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against the company and Scott Slocum, its president and co-owner. A default judgment also was entered against the company.
By DOT News Wire | May 16, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 16, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a three page rule on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 16, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | May 16, 2011
The US State Department published a five page rule on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 16, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 16, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a four page proposed rule on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
