News from September 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: President Woodrow Wilson once said, “There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.".
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON-A commercial enzyme could reduce overall costs linked with producing ethanol from grain, and also reduce associated emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and colleagues.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, IL -. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on September 8, 2011, Mark Clarke, 56, and David Clarke, 34, a father and son originally from Jamaica, but living and working in Kansas City, MO, pled guilty to a one-count Information...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: With parents, teachers, and education leaders demanding responsible reforms to the nation’s education system, members of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce are urging support for the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act (H.R. 2218). This bipartisan legislation will ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: Washington - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement regarding the American Jobs Act, which President Obama is sending to Congress today...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: In mid-June, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) staff identified an ash tree near Little Glen Lake infested with Emerald Ash Borer (EAB).This was the first time EAB had been confirmed within the National Lakeshore. National Lakeshore staff is working with partners and visitors to assess and mitigate the damage caused by these invasive pests.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: ASHLAND, KY - A father and his two sons received federal prison sentences today for their roles in a scheme which involved importing kilograms of a drug comparable to methamphetamine from overseas and selling it in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning sentenced...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: On Tuesday, September 13 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled, “Workforce Challenges Facing the Agriculture Industry." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park staff will be completing significant road maintenance on Old Fall River Road starting the week of September 19. Beginning Monday, Sept. 19, through Friday, Sept. 23, visitors should expect up to 25 minute delays on Old Fall River Road. Beginning on Monday, September...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Rio Grande, N.J., man who traveled to Florida 29 times to illegally obtain and distribute oxycodone was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for possession of the drug with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and senior Committee member John Kerry (D-Mass.) today led a bipartisan group of 35 Senators, in a letter, urging U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to preserve strong intellectual standards for biologics...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Amid allegations that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation sought to hack the telephones of September 11th victims and other U.S. citizens, Congressmen Bruce Braley (IA-01) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (MD-07), joined by six other Oversight Committee Members, called on Chairman Darrell Issa today to investigate the allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced that Bounepheng Savongsy, 50, of Fresno, and Ernson Merisier, 27, of Holbrook, Mass., pleaded guilty today to one count each of conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to key administration officials involved in the Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children (IWG). Congress established the IWG in 2009, instructing the panel to conduct a study and provide policy...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to key administration officials involved in the Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children (IWG). Congress established the IWG in 2009, instructing the panel to conduct a study and provide policy...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to key administration officials involved in the Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children (IWG). Congress established the IWG in 2009, instructing the panel to conduct a study and provide policy...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on the transportation extension...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: Today, leading power-generating company Luminant announced major layoffs as a result of the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. The new rule places unfair and excessive burdens on Texas and other states, which will be forced to shoulder a disproportionate percentage of the country’s emissions reductions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a Grand Tower, Ill., man and woman pled guilty on September 8, 2011, to Conspiracy to Manufacture Methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2011
News Release: Today, leading power-generating company Luminant announced major layoffs as a result of the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. The new rule places unfair and excessive burdens on Texas and other states, which will be forced to shoulder a disproportionate percentage of the country’s emissions reductions.
