News from February 2012
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: One of More Than 35 Programs Offered Like Hawk Watching in the High Country, Family Camping Events or Stargazing in Tuolumne Meadows.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge and Sheep Mountain areas of the park. To ensure that these birds of prey can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: Pipestone, MN: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 78,108 visitors in 2010 spent $3,264,000 million at Pipestone National Monument and in communities near the monument. That spending and an annual average monument payroll of $506,000 supported more than 50 jobs in the local area.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today unveiled the National Water Trails System, a new network that will increase access to water-based outdoor recreation, encourage community stewardship of local waterways, and promote tourism that fuels local economies across America.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Plans for Prescribed Fire.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: Democrats on this Committee have been actively working to shape a new trade policy responsive to the changing dynamics of a global economy. We rejected the passive, hands-off approach that earlier characterized American trade policy, and embraced actively shaping expansion of trade in ways that grappled with the impact of trade and broadened its benefits and minimized its downsides.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 29, 2012 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 3409, the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act with a bipartisan vote of 26-18. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Bill Johnson (OH-06), prevents the Obama Administration’s...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: "This budget supports historic transitions to democracy, rebuilds agricultural systems, confronts growing environmental challenges, helps communities affected by humanitarian disasters and disease, and drives sustainable development by forming new partnerships with companies, universities, NGOs, and philanthropies.".
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: The Senators - Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Susan Collins-R-Maine, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. - also announced additional supportive comments from industry and security experts on the process by which the bill was developed as well as its contents. The regional electric utility...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 29, 2012 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1837, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act, with a bipartisan vote of 246-175. This comprehensive bill would restore water deliveries that have been cut-off due to federal regulations and environmental...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Concerned that the wholesale export of American-made natural gas could raise prices for consumers and businesses, Rep. Ed Markey's (D-Mass.) today released a report, prepared at his request by the House Natural Resources Committee's Democratic staff, exposing the perils of large-scale natural...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 29, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 1837, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act. The bill would restore water supplies, provide job certainty to farmers and communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley and decrease reliance on foreign food sources.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that in 2010 more than 277,500 visitors spent over $24 million in Channel Islands National Park and the nearby communities. That spending supported more than 300 jobs in the area.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-The Executive Office of the President (EOP) played a “direct and substantial" role in crafting regulations and securing industry support for vehicle fuel economy/greenhouse gas emission rules enacted by the Obama Administration, according to information provided to the Committee on Oversight...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: On Monday, April 2, educators have the opportunity to take part in two, half-day professional development workshops at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Both workshops focus on the use of scientific data from real-life investigations.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: The new Oconaluftee Visitor Center which opened last April just north of Cherokee, NC at Great Smoky Mountains National Park has just received certification at the Gold Level under the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating System.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing a troubling recent trend of power plant closures, leading power producer GenOn announced today it would shutter 13 percent of its generating capacity by 2015 due to new environmental regulations. The company stated it would close eight coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, “because forecasted returns on investments necessary to comply with environmental regulations are insufficient."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 17,389,242 national park visitors in New York in 2010 spent $490,911,000 and supported 5,780 jobs in the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: Today at a Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services Office, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr (D-Mich) called on the Congress to fund the COPS Program for Fiscal Year 2013 at the level ...
