News from February 2012
By DOE Gazette | Feb 23, 2012
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: “Miss the mark," “more complicated for a small-business owner," “adds complexity," “not making sense," “totally misguided," and “devil’s in the details, which aren’t there," is how America’s job creators and economists alike are talking about the President’s Corporate Tax Reform Framework. Let’s take a look...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 23, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding President Obama’s energy speech.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, President Obama announced new funding to catalyze breakthrough technologies for two key alternative fuels--natural gas and biofuels--as part of his all-of-the-above energy strategy to reduce our reliance on foreign oil and provide American families new choices for vehicles that...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Obama announced new funding to catalyze breakthrough technologies for two key alternative fuels - natural gas and biofuels - as part of his all-of-the-above energy strategy to reduce our reliance on foreign oil and provide American families new choices for vehicles...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: Challenge: Since adopting its environmental mission statement in November 2008, the Forest County Potawatomi Community has assumed a leadership role in creating a sustainable and healthy world.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: The National Park Service is proposing to construct a 3500 square foot replica of an 18th century Tlingit tribal house near Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Thursday issued the following statement in reaction to an announcement by the United States Postal Service (USPS) that it would close the Stamford mail processing facility and consolidate it with a Westchester County, N.Y, facility, and close the Wallingord mail processing center and consolidate it with the Hartford facility.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: Change doesn’t happen on its own. It’s led by dedicated and passionate people who are committed to empowering Indian Country to energize future generations. Leading the Charge is a regular Office of Indian Energy newsletter feature spotlighting the movers and shakers in energy development on tribal lands.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it is beginning the process to evaluate an exploration plan for hardrock geological prospecting northeast of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (NVM). Beginning in March 2011, Ascot Resources Ltd. (Ascot) -- a Vancouver, B.C.-based...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a visit to the University of Miami to highlight his administration’s all-out, all-of-the-above approach to American energy, President Obama today touted the Energy Department’s cost-cutting Industrial Assessment Program. The program supports university-based Industrial Assessment...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives today wrote to Jeffery Zients, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, expressing concern over EPA’s plans to regulate greenhouse gases at power plants through New Source Performance Standards. The letter, spearheaded...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: We aren't the only species that like tropical vacation spots. Japanese beetles plague parts of the Azores, and Oriental fruit flies infest some of French Polynesia. But U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are turning to nature to combat these invasive pests.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives today wrote to Jeffery Zients, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, expressing concern over EPA’s plans to regulate greenhouse gases at power plants through New Source Performance Standards. The letter, spearheaded...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: As part of Black History Month Programming, this special presentation along with a question and answer period captures a slave story told through song. "Underground" follows the life of Bali, a field slave who plans to escape from oppressive plantation life after learning that his master is going to...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC- Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, and Congresswomen Eleanor Holmes Norton and Carolyn Maloney held a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee event today to hear testimony from Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who was denied the opportunity to appear at a Committee hearing last week to discuss the critical importance of contraceptives to millions of women across the country.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) today released the following statement after the White House released its report on online privacy.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) today released the following statement after the White House released its report on online privacy.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) today released the following statement after the White House released its report on online privacy.
