News from April 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nearly two years after the start of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the independent BP Spill Commission today released a report card on the actions that have been taken -- and not taken -- to implement the Commission recommendations. The report card, which notes that that Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights at a hearing entitled “Ending Racial Profiling in America." He spoke to the need for Congress to enact his legislation to ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has received the 2012 Energy and Environmental Stewardship award from the Department of Commerce for the design and installation of an array of solar panels. The awards recognize outstanding "green" achievements in 13 different categories, including Renewable Energy.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement after President Obama failed to announce a plan to increase American energy production to help lower gasoline prices but instead proposed spending $52 million on more...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: JEWEL CAVE NATIONAL MONUMENT / WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Free tours and special activities are scheduled at Jewel Cave National Monument and Wind Cave National Park to celebrate this year's National Park Week. From Saturday, April 21, through Sunday, April 29, Discovery and Scenic Tours at Jewel Cave and Garden of Eden Tours at Wind Cave will be free. In addition to these below ground programs, both park units will be offering special surface activities.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing on the Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 (H.R. 4297). The legislation would strengthen job training and employment services for workers and employers.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, today issued the following comments in response to a report by President Obama’s National Oil Spill Commission that criticized Congress’ failure to pass legislation improving the regulation and safety of offshore drilling in the two years since the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico:
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield Upton (R-MI), today approved a pair of commonsense bills that could prevent further price increases at the pump. The panel advanced the Gasoline Regulations Act to help cut through red tape that...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: A new released today by the Energy Department analyzes the potential to generate clean hydroelectric energy at existing dams across the United States. Harnessing the tremendous power of the nation’s waterways could help increase the supply of clean energy for American families and businesses.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield Upton (R-MI), today approved a pair of commonsense bills that could prevent further price increases at the pump. The panel advanced the Gasoline Regulations Act to help cut through red tape that...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement regarding the U.S. Secret Service incident in Cartagena, Columbia and the impending investigation...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray invites children throughout the Outer Banks to take part in National Junior Ranger Day at their local national park sites on Saturday, April 21, 2012.Becoming a Junior Ranger is a fun way for children to explore and learn more about the National Parks and how they can help protect these important sites," stated Murray.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield Upton (R-MI), today approved a pair of commonsense bills that could prevent further price increases at the pump. The panel advanced the Gasoline Regulations Act to help cut through red tape that...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that The Alphas Company Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 LOS ANGELES—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to California to deliver remarks at San Jose State University on expanding the cybersecurity workforce and later at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) work internationally as part of the Campus Lecture Series.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2012
News Release: The Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General announced today a comprehensive Clean Water Act settlement with the city of Memphis, Tenn. Memphis has agreed to make improvements to its sewer systems to eliminate unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage. Memphis estimates such work will cost approximately $250 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2012
News Release: Stephen A. Favato, a resident of Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., and a former partner in BDO Seidman LLP’s Woodbridge, N.J., office, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax crimes, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. In August 2010, a jury sitting in Newark, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2012
News Release: Thomas Mitchell of Mansfield, Ohio pleaded guilty before United States District Judge George J. Limbert of the Northern District of Ohio to criminal information charging him with willfully failing to file an income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department and IRS announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2012
News Release: A federal jury today convicted Charles Cannon, 26, Michael McLaughlin, 41, and Brian Kerstetter, 32, of a federal hate crime charge related to a racially motivated assault of a 29-year-old African-American man. The defendants were found guilty of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 16, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday issued a consent cease and desist order and assessed a $6 million civil money penalty against the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM), New York, New York, a state-chartered bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System. The order addresses allegations that BNYM breached ...
