News from December 2012
By DOE Gazette | Dec 12, 2012
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 12, 2012
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 12, 2012
The US Commerce Department published a four page proposed rule on Dec. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 12, 2012
The US Labor Department published a three page proposed rule on Dec. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following statement today in response to press accounts about a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on hardrock and other mineral production from federal land. Murkowski also questioned how reporters received the report before it was made available to the congressional committee of jurisdiction or it being made available on the agency’s website.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), and Todd Platts (R-Pa.) responded to today’s Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that detailed major problems...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: Protecting sensitive electronic information in different situations requires different types of cryptographic algorithms, but ultimately they all depend on keys, the cryptographic equivalent of a password. A new publication * from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aims to help people secure their data with good keys no matter which algorithm they choose.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, slammed the White House for siding with big businesses over the small businesses that are America’s top job creators. It was reported that the latest so-called “offer" by the White House yesterday to House...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: Did you know there is a smart phone application for first responders to use in detecting bomb threats? Or that the first animals to return to the Mount St. Helens area after its 1980 eruption were spiders and beetles? How about the fact that virtual re-creations of cadavers from a death row inmate and...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: Kate A. Remley, an engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today welcomed Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who will join the committee for the 113th Congress starting in January. Senators Brown and Bennet will replace outgoing Senators Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), both retiring this year.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), an international alliance dedicated to combating online child sexual abuse, has voted in four new organizations as members.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, Andersonville National Historic Site will again hold its "Night Museum" event.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: MANHATTAN - - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Field Division and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the extradition of Horst Walther Overdick-Mejia from Guatemala. Overdick-Mejia was...
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, today released a statement following the announcement that North Korea had launched a rocket with an attached satellite.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: If you've ever had your house lights flicker alarmingly during a bad electrical storm but found that your prized home computing network survived just fine, you may wish to pay silent tribute to François Martzloff, an electronics engineer (now retired) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: Federal researchers have developed the first-ever rating system that allows communities to assess their risk from wildfires-on a building-by-building basis-and then ties that assessment to improved building codes, standards and practices that could help reduce the threat. The proposed Wildland Urban...
