News from May 2011
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: As of 3 o’clock Friday afternoon May 6, 2011 - Crews are working on assessments of damages and flood recovery. Ongoing work includes repairs to roads, launches, campgrounds and facilities. Assessments continue on trails, and park natural and cultural resources. The following areas remain closed for the safety of our park visitors, neighbors and employees.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ. - Today, Douglas W. Coleman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced that over 6,000 pounds of prescription drugs were collected during Operation Take-Back Arizona. The one-day DEA nationwide campaign was held on April 30, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and provided Arizonans the ability to properly dispose of their unwanted and expired medications in a safe and environmentally sound way.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), GOP Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ways & Means Committee Chairman...
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), GOP Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ways & Means Committee Chairman...
By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released the jobs data for April...
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations this week held a hearing to examine “White House Transparency, Visitor Logs, and Lobbyists." The hearing demonstrated that the Obama administration’s promises of transparency do not square with their actual policies. Unfortunately, the White House refused to send a witness to testify about their own transparency policies.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: The Friends of Fire Island National Seashore (FFINS), in conjunction with the Nature and Wildlife Photographers of Long Island (NWPLI), are sponsoring a South Shore-themed photography exhibition and fundraiser at the Patchogue-Watch Hill Ferry Terminal, 150 West Avenue, in Patchogue, New York. An opening...
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Due to an unusually large, lingering snowpack and cool temperatures, Glacier National Park officials announced delays in opening some east side campgrounds and the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn. The opening date of the Many Glacier, Cutbank and Two Medicine Campgrounds will be June 10th...
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - At approximately 10:45 a.m. today, rangers trieved the body of a young male from below the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By EPA Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: During a recent hearing on EPA regulations, Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) had an alarming exchange on jobs with Mathy Stanislaus, EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. The EPA expert confirmed that the agency, contrary to the president’s executive order, does not directly examine regulations’ impacts on jobs.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations this week held a hearing to examine “White House Transparency, Visitor Logs, and Lobbyists." The hearing demonstrated that the Obama administration’s promises of transparency do not square with their actual policies. Unfortunately, the White House refused to send a witness to testify about their own transparency policies.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: During a recent hearing on EPA regulations, Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) had an alarming exchange on jobs with Mathy Stanislaus, EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. The EPA expert confirmed that the agency, contrary to the president’s executive order, does not directly examine regulations’ impacts on jobs.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: Over the last couple years, an enormous pond of trash has been accumulating beneath Interstate 285 at the Powers Island unit of the park. This sitting pond of scum was made possible by the flood in 2009 which created a dam of tree branches and sticks blocking the narrow channel between the supporting columns of the bridge and shore - the dam has been acting as a filter ever since. Until April 21st, the floating trash behind the dam extended for several hundred feet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: CHICAGO, IL. - On Saturday, April 30, 2011, there were over 5,300 medication collection sites sponsored by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) which accepted unused, expired, and unwanted prescription drugs from community members in every state, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The program was made possible through partnership with community, public health, and law enforcement throughout the country.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Anthony Bui, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, and owner of Asian Fish, Inc., of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in organizing and financing a network of high-tech, indoor, marijuana grow facilities stretching from Florida to Connecticut. Each of these...
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced today* that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks. Although small, the correction could represent a big step towards atomic timekeepers' longstanding goal of a clock with a precision equivalent to one second of error every 32 billion years-longer than the age of the universe.
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2011
News Release: During a recent hearing on EPA regulations, Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) had an alarming exchange on jobs with Mathy Stanislaus, EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. The EPA expert confirmed that the agency, contrary to the president’s executive order, does not directly examine regulations’ impacts on jobs.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that it will conduct a referendum from June 8 - 24, 2011, for eligible processed raspberry producers and importers to determine whether a new national Processed Raspberry Promotion, Research, and Information Order should be established.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2011
News Release: Kanab, UT: Thursday, May 26, 2011, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm (MDT) - Kanab Middle School, 690 E. Cowboy Drive, Kanab, Utah.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "DHS issued an intelligence message May 5 to its federal, state, local and tribal partners about potential Al-Qa'ida contemplation in February 2010 of plots against the U.S. rail sector. For the same reason, the Transportation ...
