News from February 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today the United States Postal Service released its quarterly loss numbers, showing that the distressed self-funding federal agency lost $3.3 billion last quarter. Total mail volume was down 6% from the same time period last year. Historically, the first quarter of the fiscal year, which includes the Christmas season, is the most profitable for the Postal Service.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado State Office posted the list of parcels for the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for 9 a.m., May 10, 2012, at the State Office in Lakewood.The BLM will offer 34 parcels totaling 32285.50 acres for lease. Four of those parcels totaling...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, commended the Department of Defense today on its report evaluating the service of women in combat roles and on its announcement that it would open up more than 14,000 competitive jobs to allow women to serve in units co-located with direct ground combat units and at the battalion level in the Army, Marine Corps, and Navy.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a Combined Construction and Operating License for two new nuclear reactors at Southern Co.’s Vogtle plant in Georgia.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today introduced two pieces of legislation to restructure the federal role in elementary and secondary education. The proposals reflect the latest effort by House Republicans to enact lasting reforms to No Child Left Behind.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Thanks to investigations by scientists-turned-detectives with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other agencies, potato growers in the western United States and abroad now know the identities of the pathogen-insect duo responsible for outbreaks of the costly tuber disease known as "zebra chip.".
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: NIST OLES has partnered with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Office of Cheltenham Operations (OCH), to develop the Comprehensive Overview of Police Skills (COPS) program to promote better standards, guidelines and technologies for law enforcement. The program will be held at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) commented on today’s announcement that the federal government and 49 state attorneys general have reached a $25 billion settlement agreement with the Nation’s five largest mortgage servicers to address mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuses.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is requesting comments on proposed revisions to the U.S. Standards for Grades of Eggplant.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu joined Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl to tour a range of research facilities at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), meet with local business leaders and stakeholders in the natural gas industry, and highlight local investments...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that Oregon Inlet, Frisco, and Ocracoke Campgrounds will open to the public on Friday, April 6, 2012.Oregon Inlet and Frisco Campgrounds will close at noon on October 8, 2012.Ocracoke Island Campground, on a reservation system, will close at noon on Oct. 29, 2012.Cape Point Campground in Buxton, on Hatteras Island, will open Friday, May 25, 2012 for Memorial Day weekend and close on Sept. 3, 2012.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman toured Dow Kokam’s new global battery research and development center, located in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, outside of Kansas City, to highlight America’s investments in cutting-edge energy innovations that are laying the building...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to today’s announcement of a multi-billion dollar settlement relating to widespread and illegal abuses by mortgage servicing companies...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Today on the House Floor, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) called on the House of Representatives to move quickly to conference with the Senate in order to strengthen S. 2038, the “Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act" (the STOCK Act), a bill that clarifies ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Last November 30 a ferocious wind toppled thousands of trees in the Middle Fork San Joaquin River watershed of the Inyo National Forest. The tangle of downed trees looks like a giant's game of pick-up sticks. The forest damage occurs in patches, from Island Pass all the way down to Fish Creek, and throughout the Reds Meadow valley.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Mark Your Calendars for the 2nd Annual.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment and Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) met with reporters recently to outline a 2012 agenda for the subcommittee that focuses on protecting the American people, creating jobs, eliminating government waste. The agenda includes...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded today’s decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle. The two reactors will join Vogtle’s two existing reactors near Waynesboro, Georgia, with Unit 3 expected to begin operating in 2016 and Unit 4 in 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: House Republicans are again turning to falsehoods over the payroll tax cut extension, with Majority Leader Eric Cantor today repeating the debunked line that the payroll tax cut will raid the Social Security Trust Fund. In August, Mr. Cantor seemed opposed to continuing the payroll tax cut for a different...
