News from February 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2012
News Release: Sometimes knowing that a new technology works is not enough. You also must know why it works to get marketplace acceptance. New information from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)* about how layered switching devices for novel computer memory systems work, for example, may now allow these structures to come to market sooner, helping bring about faster, lower-powered computers.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement on Tuesday evening in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2012
News Release: Camp and Brady Statements on U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement Entry into Force.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2012
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA) concessioner Grand Canyon Railway (owned and operated by Xanterra Parks and Resorts) was recently awarded the National Park Service's (NPS) Environmental Achievement Award in the Lean, Clean and Green category.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns responded this evening after the Obama White House failed to meet another deadline to produce internal Solyndra-related documents. The White House has failed to...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2012
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Women's Rights National Historical Park is pleased to announce that it will show the History Channel documentary Voices of Civil Rights this Friday and Saturday, February 24 and 25, at 12 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2012
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and Western National Parks Association (WNPA), the park's non-profit cooperating association, will host local author Jeffrey Rich, and co-authors Terri Lhuillier and Joanne Brady at the park's visitor center on Saturday, March 10 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for a personal discussion and book signing. The visitor center is located at 14412 J.F. Kennedy Memorial Drive in Whiskeytown, CA.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) met today with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to pursue new trade opportunities for U.S. businesses, ranchers and farmers, including through permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia as part of its accession to the World...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced the release of FY 2012 grant guidance and application kits for seven DHS preparedness grant programs totaling over $1.3 billion to assist states, urban ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2012 – USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Chief Dave White today announced a partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to improve water quality, wildlife habitat and soil productivity. The partnership brings together $10 million of NRCS funding with an additional $10 million or more in private funds through NFWF to increase technical assistance in priority areas.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: Final allocations under the extended Act that has contributed to schools and road improvement in rural communities WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that more than $307 million is being distributed to 41 states and Puerto Rico for public schools and roads and specific county programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC has agreed to settle its liability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in a settlement with the United States valued at $90 million, announced the Department of Justice, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today. Approximately $45 million of the $90 million settlement is going directly to the Gulf in the form of penalties or expedited environmental projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Jeng “Jay” Shih, 54, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced today in the District of Columbia to 18 months in prison, while his Queens, N.Y., company, Sunrise Technologies and Trading Corporation, was sentenced to 24 months corporate probation for conspiracy to illegally export U.S.-origin computers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Julius DeSimone of Rome, N.Y., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Utica, N.Y., for conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act and to defraud the United States, and to making false statements to federal law enforcement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A 29-year-old man residing in Alexandria, Va., was arrested today for allegedly attempting to detonate a bomb in a suicide attack on the U.S. Capitol Building as part of what he intended to be a terrorist operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today a 14-count indictment charging Wilcox County, Ga., Sheriff Stacy Bloodsworth; his son, Austin Bloodsworth; former Wilcox County Jailer Casey Owens; and former inmate Willie James Caruthers, for violating the rights of an inmate.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: Commerce Secretary John Bryson Remarks at U.S.-China Business Cooperation Forum, Los Angeles, California Thank you, Vice Minister Gao, and thank you to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce for hosting this Forum.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: Commerce Secretary John Bryson Opinion Editorial, McClatchey-Tribune Information Services "Manufacturing, exporting showing growth" Over the last month, I have met with manufacturers who make everything from carbon-fiber products to advanced batteries. It is great to hear stories of American businesses that are building things here, and selling their products everywhere.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis has issued the following statement on congressional action today on the extension of Unemployment Insurance benefits and the payroll tax cut: "I am pleased that congressional leaders have extended both unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed, and the payroll tax cut that is critical to so many working families.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
