News from January 2012
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Over the last several months, the National Park Service (NPS) has analyzed the comments received during the public comment period for the Oil and Gas Management Plan/Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and the Obed Wild and Scenic River. At this...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement in response to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s comments about spectrum legislation at the Consumer Electronic Show...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Marking the end of a more than five-year bureaucratic saga that has become all too common, federal air permits for exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea were made final yesterday after years of EPA delay. The EPA’s internal appeals board rejected the latest in a long series of...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is sidestepping several important disclosure requirements with the new health care law and is preventing Congress and the American public from being able to assess the true costs associated with the so-called “essential health benefits," according to a letter sent today to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from several House chairmen and Senate ranking members.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Recently, staffs from Point Reyes National Seashore and The Marine Mammal Center (TMMC) were able to catch an elusive northern elephant seal who, for over two years, has been seen with a strap entangled around its neck. The seal has been eluding biologists who have been trying to sedate the seal and remove the strap which was digging into its neck since at least 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this evening received 66 pages of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. The committee had previously received 136 pages in mid-November. The committee served subpoenas...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this evening received 66 pages of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. The committee had previously received 136 pages in mid-November. The committee served subpoenas...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement regarding the announcements from President Obama that he will elevate the Small Business Administration to a cabinet-level post and ask Congress for the authority to consolidate other agencies...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: To mark the successful conclusion of the Alger Energy Savers program, George and Diane Culter of Munising were awarded $2,500 toward the purchase of new Energy Star appliances. The Alger Energy Savers community engagement effort launched in January 2011 to help area residents understand the linkage between energy use and climate change and to increase energy efficiency throughout Alger County.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressional leaders from the Kentucky and Ohio delegations sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu yesterday urging him to take immediate action to create and protect jobs and maintain U.S. access to a vital resource by moving forward with the American Centrifuge and the re-enrichment...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: The second Point Reyes Christmas Bird Count for Kids (CBC4Kids) took place on Saturday, January 7, 2012, at Point Reyes National Seashore. Organized by the Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA), in partnership with the National Park Service, Sonoma Birding, and Cordell Bank National Marine...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Marking the end of a more than five-year bureaucratic saga that has become all too common, federal air permits for exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea were made final yesterday after years of EPA delay. The EPA’s internal appeals board rejected the latest in a long series of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Marking the end of a more than five-year bureaucratic saga that has become all too common, federal air permits for exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea were made final yesterday after years of EPA delay. The EPA’s internal appeals board rejected the latest in a long series of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is sidestepping several important disclosure requirements with the new health care law and is preventing Congress and the American public from being able to assess the true costs associated with the so-called “essential health benefits," according to a letter sent today to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from several House chairmen and Senate ranking members.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today welcomed the idea of consolidating duplicative and complex federal agencies, pointing to reports from the U.S. Government Accountability Office and information gathered in committee hearings as evidence that shrinking government...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressional leaders from the Kentucky and Ohio delegations sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu yesterday urging him to take immediate action to create and protect jobs and maintain U.S. access to a vital resource by moving forward with the American Centrifuge and the re-enrichment...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -- Grand Canyon National Park's Artist-in-Residence program is pleased to announce its South Rim Artist-in-Residence (SR AiR) selections for the October 2011 - September 2012 season, and the North Rim Artist-in-Residence (NR AiR) selections for the May - October 2012 season.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement about District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray’s letter to the National Park Service regarding the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - A former high school dance instructor was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 50 years in federal prison Jan. 12, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for the sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this evening received 66 pages of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. The committee had previously received 136 pages in mid-November. The committee served subpoenas...
