News from September 2011
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD - Beginning Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, facilities at Mount Rushmore National Memorial will change to winter hours.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Region 4 News Release: 11-1346-ATL (462)
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - An official ceremony to celebrate the re-watering of the San Juan Acequia took place earlier today near the Mission San Juan compound. State and local government officials including Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Rep. Francisco Canseco, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and Mayor Julián Castro joined community leaders and guests to commemorate the occasion and to address the importance of the acequia to the state and city of San Antonio.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: New cacao types with unique flavors that are distinctly Peruvian have been identified by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. These new flavors could one day be marketed like wine, by geographical provenance.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor has announced the Contra Costa Water District has been awarded a $150,000 grant through the Department of the Interior's WaterSMART program to complete a system optimization review of the district's water delivery and treatment system. Commissioner...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Downloads: * Historic Wetland Photo. The following credit line must be used: Courtesy of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. *. *. The National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy announced today the ground-breaking for a large-scale project to restore the coastal wetland at Prisoners Harbor...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Region 5 News Release: 11-1354-CHI. Sept. 26, 2011. Contact: Scott Allen Rhonda Burke. Phone: 312-353-6976 312-353-4807. Email: allen.scott@dol.gov burke.rhonda@dol.gov. MADISON, Wis. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Kraft Foods Inc. for 12 serious...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following reports by the U.S. Coast Guard that oil may be leaking from the Macondo well that was the source of last year's BP oil spill or from the wreckage from the Deepwater Horizon, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the Ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee and the leading voice for Congressional oversight during the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-Va.), and House Judiciary Committee Member Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) wrote a letter to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles urging them ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: WILMINGTON, DE - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, and Vito S. Guarino, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced that Michael Kyle Griffith was sentenced today to serve 54 months in prison for his leadership...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Monday, Sept. 26, National Park Service (NPS) officials, including Bob Vogel, Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, and Project Manager Mike Morelli, will hold a press conference to provide an update about the extent of the damage sustained by the Washington Monument during the in 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the East Coast on Aug. 23, and NPS plans for moving forward on getting the Monument reopened to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport returned two indictments today charging a total of...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: MARIETTA, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Marietta Industrial Enterprises Inc., which operates Refuse Recycling in Marietta, for 21 safety, including two willful, violations. OSHA opened an inspection after a worker was found dead inside the rotating drum assembly of a machine used to screen recyclables from other refuse on March 30.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will deliver remarks at two community events tomorrow (TUESDAY) to encourage Congress to consider his comprehensive legislation, providing the U.S. Postal Service with the necessary latitude to make innovative structural changes to enable it to continue to deliver for decades to come.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Beginning Sunday, Oct. 2, several visitor centers throughout Gateway National Recreation Area will have new operating schedules. The new schedule is based on visitor patterns and anticipated staffing levels for the coming year.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2011
News Release: Charleston, WV, Sept. 26, 2011 - The Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources today held a field hearing in Charleston, West Virginia on the Obama Administration’s Office of Surface Mining, Enforcement and Regulation’s (OSM) onerous and job threatening rewrite of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, today asked the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) in the Department of Interior for more information about the practice of mountaintop removal mining and OSM's failure to update its environmental...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2011
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD: Six trees were planted and a historic plaque unveiled in celebration of National Public Lands Day at Wind Cave National Park Saturday, September 24.The newly formed Friends of Wind Cave National Park provided the labor as trees were replanted around the visitor center in order to preserve one of the park's cultural landscapes. The new trees replace trees originally planted in 1937 by the Civilian Conservation Corp.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Interior, 202-208-6416 Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Honored as an Outstanding American by Choice WASHINGTON—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Interior ...
