News from April 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today launched ProtectingOurWorkers.com to listen directly to American union workers about forced political contributions and to continue its efforts to hold both government and union leaders accountable to the rank-and-file whose...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park Superintendent, Darlene M. Koontz, announced that the National Park Service has completed an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Utilities Replacement Project in the headquarters area of Lassen Volcanic National Park in Mineral, CA. The EA includes analysis of the proposed action, as well as a no action alternative.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park road crews have initiated spring snow plowing operations on the park's roads, including the 50-mile Going-to-the-Sun Road. Snow levels at high elevations across the park are currently above average for this time of year. The snow depth atop Flattop Mountain...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: Patchogue, New York - Fire Island National Seashore is hosting its 8th Biennial Science Conference this year during National Park Week. The two-day event includes a day of presentations and updates on Friday, April 27 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Patchogue-Watch Hill Ferry Terminal, with a guided...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: BOULDER, Colo. - Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel "superradiant" laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best conventional visible lasers. This type of laser could boost the performance of the most advanced atomic clocks and related technologies, such as communications and navigation systems as well as space-based astronomical instruments.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that the Plant Variety Protection Board will meet April 25-26, 2012, in Beltsville, Md. The meeting will convene each day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in room 4-2223 of USDA’s George Washington Carver Center on 5601 Sunnyside Avenue.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: CJS Geotrail Expands to Lower Eastern Shore.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns responded today to the Department of Treasury Inspector General’s report on the Obama administration’s ill-fated $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra. The report, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns responded today to the Department of Treasury Inspector General’s report on the Obama administration’s ill-fated $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra. The report, ...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns responded today to the Department of Treasury Inspector General’s report on the Obama administration’s ill-fated $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra. The report, ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 3, 2012 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture - along with the Department of Energy, and the Department of Navy - will co-host an Advanced Biofuels Industry Roundtable in Washington D.C. on May 18, 2012 as the next step in the partnership with the private sector to produce advanced biofuels ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Toyota City, Japan-based G.S. Electech Inc. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $2.75 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the prices of auto parts used on antilock brake systems installed in U.S. cars, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Three men, including a former officer with the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections, were convicted by a federal jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, yesterday for their roles in providing security for drug transactions, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Rosa E. Rodriguez-Velez of the District of Puerto Rico and Special Agent in Charge Joseph S. Campbell of the FBI’s San Juan Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner of a Miami-area assisted living facility pleaded guilty yesterday for her role in a kickback scheme that funneled patients to a fraudulent mental health provider, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), announced the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – WellCare Health Plans Inc. will pay $137.5 million to the federal government and nine states to resolve four lawsuits alleging violations of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. WellCare, based in Tampa, Fla., provides managed health care services for approximately 2.6 million Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia LLC, a radiation oncology practice, and its affiliates RCOG Cancer Centers LLC, Physician Oncology Services Management Company LLC, Frank A. Critz, M.D. and Physician Oncology Services L.P. (collectively, RCOG) agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle claims that ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: First Bancshares, Inc., of Cold Spring, Cold Spring, Minnesota Written Agreement dated Aug. 16, 2010 Terminated March 29, 2012 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced a Consent Order against Morgan Stanley to address a pattern of misconduct and negligence in residential mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing at its subsidiary, Saxon Mortgage Services, Inc.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Tuesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on March 13, 2012.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 3, 2012
News Release: Rule will lead to enhanced protection of miners health and safety ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that the final rule "Examinations of Work Areas in Underground Coal Mines for Violations of Mandatory Health or Safety Standards" will ...
