News from October 2011
By DOE Gazette | Oct 20, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: Four trees fell across Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park Wednesday morning, October 19th, closing approximately eight miles of the parkway to through traffic from just north of the Prairie Creek Visitor Center to the northern junction with Coastal Drive and the northern...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news of the death of Moammar Gadhafi...
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on Muammar Qaddafi’s death.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Interior's new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today approved the first exploration plan from BP for deepwater drilling in U.S. waters since BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee and author of comprehensive drilling safety legislation, today expressed his concern that the decision may be premature.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: The National Park has exercised a contract option with BlueScope, Construction Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri and Ronkonkoma, NY to begin phase II of the exterior rehabilitation project of the Old Orchard home at Sagamore Hill NHS.Work on the building will begin in the next couple of weeks.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: Dear Acting Director DeMarco: We are writing to schedule a follow-up meeting to our October 6, 2011, meeting with 17 Members of Congress during which we discussed the status of your agency’s plans to implement the President’s proposal to help responsible homeowners refinance their mortgages at today’s...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore announced the beginning of its 2012 summer hiring process. Cape Lookout National Seashore hires 20 or more summer seasonal employees each year. Positions will be announced in the coming weeks at.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging brothers Shavane Bouasangouane, 43, and Reeney Bouasangouane, 47, both of Fresno, with conspiring to cultivate, distribute, and possess marijuana with intent to distribute it, and cultivating and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute it.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: McALLEN, TX - A San Juan, Texas, resident convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to possess marijuana and being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of federal law will be spending the next five years and 10 months in federal prison without parole, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: Effective immediately, the exposed reservoir areas of Lake Aldwell and the remaining Lake Aldwell are closed to public use.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, announced that the bipartisan Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act passed out of committee by a bipartisan vote of 15 to 7. The legislation, which overhauls the No Child Left Behind Act, will now be sent to the full Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: LOS ANGELES, CA - The Drug Enforcement Administration and its Los Angeles area community partners are providing the public with another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs. On Saturday, Oct. 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the public...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is expanding his investigation into the kickback scandal that struck the Army Corps of Engineers, today requesting information from the Department of Defense on the $1.5 billion in contracts given during the previous five years to Eyak Corporation, an Alaska Native...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Any cuts to Social Security imposed by the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction would be borne almost entirely by current Social Security beneficiaries and those who are very near retirement, a new analysis by Social Security Chief Actuary Stephen C. Goss makes clear. Three-quarters...
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), an early proponent of a no-fly zone for Libya, today issued the following statement regarding reports of Muammar Qaddafi’s death:
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: Hawaiʻi National Park, HI - Two adventurous programs offered by Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park will introduce the compelling landscape, biodiversity and history of the park's southernmost section to intrepid hikers.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: The new issue of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs and its Spanish-language edition (Informe de investigaciones de alimentos y nutricion) are now available online. View the English edition here.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) are urging Energy Secretary Steven Chu to make DOE officials available for transcribed interviews under oath as part of the committee’s ongoing Solyndra...
