News from January 2012
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released the new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM), updating a useful tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 1990 with greater accuracy and detail. The new map-jointly developed by USDA's Agricultural Research...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - This week the National Park Getaway explores four pristine barrier islands stretching along the Atlantic Ocean from Ocracoke Inlet to Beaufort Inlet in North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Batman, Catwoman and Spiderman are all cool, but the real stories behind the superpowers of some of Biscayne's animals are mindblowing! The February 12 installment of Biscayne National Park's multiple award-winning Family Fun Fest will look at animal communication, navigation, defense...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: Philadelphia- National Park Service Northeast Regional Director Dennis R. Reidenbach has named Kate Hammond as the next Superintendent of Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania.Hammond will also supervise the Superintendent of Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in Elverson, Pennsylvania.Currently...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: On Jan. 17, 2012, I wrote to you requesting information about how you plan to proceed with the Committee’s investigation of Members of Congress who received mortgage loans from Countrywide Financial Corporation under its VIP loan program, also known as the “Friends of Angelo" program...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument invites the public to return to the Gila Visitor Center and Western National Parks Association Store. Repairs to the Gila Visitor Center's roof and ceilings have been completed, and the visitor center reopened to the public on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: Zion National Park Superintendent Jock Whitworth announces the completion of the environmental analysis for the rehabilitation of the Kolob Terrace Road and the signing of the finding of no significant impact (FONSI) by the National Park Service intermountain regional director. This approval followed...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after President Obama unveiled his Blueprint for an America Built to Last...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement following the President's State of the Union speech...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON-Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Vista, CA) released the following statement tonight regarding President Obama’s State of the Union Address...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: Donated to the park in 1971, Riverfront is one in a series of five paintings commissioned in 1936 for the 905 Liquor Store in downtown St. Louis. The painting was recently exhibited in the Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 25, 2012 - As part of the House Natural Resources Committee’s nearly year-long investigation into the Obama Administration’s rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule, Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-05) and Energy and Minerals Subcommittee Chairman Doug Lamborn (CO-05)...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today announced a hearing to examine President Obama’s so-called recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The hearing, entitled “The NLRB Recess Appointments: Implications for America’s Workers and Employers," will be held Tuesday, February 7, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in 2175 Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 25, 2012 - For as much as President Obama complains about the bad economy that he inherited, he sure seems to be enjoying the inherited boom in U.S. oil and gas production on private and state lands. Last night President Obama dedicated a significant portion of his State of...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans today released the second in a series of videos that explore new draft legislative proposals to improve federal K-12 education law, known as No Child Left Behind.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Responding to President Obama’s State of the Union address, members of the Energy and Commerce committee last night underscored the harmful consequences of the president’s decision to reject the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would bring 20,000 direct jobs and significant...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Responding to President Obama’s State of the Union address, members of the Energy and Commerce committee last night underscored the harmful consequences of the president’s decision to reject the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would bring 20,000 direct jobs and significant...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Responding to President Obama’s State of the Union address, members of the Energy and Commerce committee last night underscored the harmful consequences of the president’s decision to reject the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would bring 20,000 direct jobs and significant...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: Gateway National Recreation Area has begun the restoration of a two-acre pilot project at Crooke's Point, a section of Great Kills Park in Staten Island, to create a barrier island habitat. This project will replace non-native and invasive plant species with native trees and shrubs that will nurture a more diverse wildlife population at the coastal area. The National Park Service (NPS) is partnering with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and MillionTreesNYC.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee are formally requesting that the White House turn over internal memoranda previously kept shrouded from Congress and the public’s view after the information was disclosed to The New Yorker for a Jan. 30, 2012, article...
