News from August 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee and the leading investigative force in Congress during the BP spill, released the following statement after the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today announced the issuance of a final offshore drilling safety rule. The rule makes final the safety reforms put in place in the wake of the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: The Department of the Interior has granted a 15-day extension of the public comment period for the draft Secretarial Order to promote orderly and safe development of oil and gas and potash resources in southeast New Mexico. The request for additional time was made by Senators Udall and Bingaman to allow...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Aug. 16, 2012) - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, today commended the Obama administration, who media report is considering releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in an effort to address rising gas prices. In...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), and Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for an update on progress of the Navajo Birth Cohort Study, a first of its kind study to assess the impacts...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ-The National Park Service (NPS) turns 96 years old Aug. 25, a day known as Founders Day.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: The National Park Service has awarded a $2.6 million contract to renovate the Old Solly's Building as the park headquarters in downtown Seward and the U.S. Department of Transportation - Western Federal Lands Highways Division has awarded an $800,000 contract to repair road damage and test an interim solution to the road flooding on the Herman Leirer Road within the park at Exit Glacier. .
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has received requests for an extension to the comment period and additional public meetings for the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). After consideration of the requests, the BLM has determined that an extension to the...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: As the days slowly grow shorter and the heat of summer begins to fade in anticipation of autumn, the stories of the Wilderness Road at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park will come alive in a special program conducted on the evening of August 25.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: The Udall Foundation's Stewart L. Udall Parks in Focus program is currently exhibiting photographs of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and other scenic public lands throughout Michigan, taken by 30 of its youth participants (ages 11 to 17), at the Alger County Heritage Center.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2012
News Release: Grand Teton National Park will join with the Jackson Hole Astronomy Club to celebrate Grand Teton Astronomy Day on Sunday, August 19. Several family-oriented activities are planned, offering park visitors and local residents an opportunity to learn about star gazing, sunspots, star clusters, galaxies...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 FALLS CHURCH, Va.—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today hosted the second annual Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Iftar dinner bringing together Muslim community members, international partners, and federal, state and local officials.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will begin accepting requests, effective immediately, for consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals. On June 15, Secretary of Homeland ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: Obama Administration Continues to Take Swift Action to Provide Assistance to Farmers, Ranchers and Businesses WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2012—As part of continuing steps by the Obama Administration to get assistance to producers impacted by the drought, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today designated 172 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: A federal court in Kansas City, Kan., has permanently barred Ahferom Goitom from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Goitom consented without admitting the allegations against him, was signed by Judge John W. Lungstrum ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Delaware company was fined $557,000 for negligently discharging oil into the bayous of Jefferson Parish, La., the Department of Justice announced. Cedyco Corporation, headquartered in Houston, was sentenced today in federal court in the Eastern District of Louisiana. On May 23, 2012, Cedyco ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Northern California real estate investor has agreed to plead guilty for her role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned a 25-count indictment charging Larreka Jackson for conspiring to file false tax returns using stolen identities, filing false claims, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned a superseding indictment charging Antoinette Djonret, Angelique Djonret, Tabitha Stinson, Melba Wilson, Chantresa Hayes and Corey Means with conspiring to file false tax returns using stolen identities, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: Darren Douglass-Griffin, 35, a former member of the Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Macon State Prison (MSP) in Oglethorpe, Ga., pleaded guilty to a two-count bill of information charging him with conspiracy to violate the civil rights of inmates and falsification of records in a federal investigation, the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON –A federal jury in Washington, D.C., today returned guilty verdicts against Sanford Ltd., a New Zealand fishing company, on six counts of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS). The jury also found a company employee guilty of two other charges.
