News from January 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needs American innovators and entrepreneurs to help solve technological problems and develop NIST technologies into marketable products. The NIST Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is seeking to fund proposals that address specific challenges in the fields of advanced manufacturing and information technology and cybersecurity (including communications-related technologies).
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Howard Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the following statement on the recent release of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission Report.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: You are invited to become a Junior Archeologist with the staff of Fort Stanwix and dig into history. You will become one of thousands of volunteers across America who study manmade objects from the long ago past for science and for fun. Become an artifact detective and track down the story of the Oneida...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: With a random-looking spatter of paint specks, a pair of cameras and a whole lot of computer processing, engineer Mark Iadicola of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been helping the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), in cooperation with the American Association of State...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has developed two new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for measurements of human exposure to environmental toxins. Used as a sort of chemical ruler to check the accuracy...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: On Dec. 9, 2011, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) initiated a planning process to address sage-grouse conservation measures in land use plans in ten western states. Seeking public input, the BLM is now holding meetings to provide an opportunity for interested parties to discuss sage-grouse conservation...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: This Office of Indian Energy webinar provides information on developing geothermal resources on tribal lands with an overview of: geothermal resources by region; technology options; geothermal leasing and development policies such as resource ownership, water law and rights, leasing, and development at the federal, tribal, and state levels; and financing options and strategies.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: You are invited to start your new year with a free visit to a national park! Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and all of the other 396 national parks across the country will offer free admission from January 14 through 16 to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. You can literally walk in Dr.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, the oil and gas industry and their Washington allies attacked the Obama administration for its efforts to ensure the safety of offshore drilling. Offshore resources were being locked up, the industry said. Leases weren't being sold quickly enough in the oil- and gas-rich waters of the Gulf.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: The top science stories of 2011, as selected by several science magazines, include two experiments and a famous computer, that relied on technology from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today released a comprehensive report, State and Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Plans: The Pension Debt Crisis that Threatens America, outlining the financial risks of the nation’s $4.4 trillion public pension debt and its negative impact on the American economy.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service is in serious need of short-term housing near Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore for the summer's seasonal workforce of park rangers, guides, maintenance workers, and research aids, according to Superintendent Constantine Dillon.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested on the cybersecurity guidance for entities with cyber-reliant critical infrastructure, such...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: Under signature of Superintendent Debbie Bird, an area of Bossburg Flat and beach has been closed. The closure is in response to environmental sampling information recently provided to the National Park Service (NPS) by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that indicate lead and arsenic levels in this area may be a risk to human health.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Obama Environmental Protection Agency hit yet another legal snag yesterday when the D.C. District Court issued an order vacating EPA’s current stay of two of its Boiler MACT rules. EPA put the rules on hold after a tumultuous rule-making process that included an extended comment...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Obama Environmental Protection Agency hit yet another legal snag yesterday when the D.C. District Court issued an order vacating EPA’s current stay of two of its Boiler MACT rules. EPA put the rules on hold after a tumultuous rule-making process that included an extended comment...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are helping sugar beet producers increase yields, protect their produce from disease, and boost profits. The research conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Kimberly, Idaho, supports the USDA priority of promoting international food security. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Obama Environmental Protection Agency hit yet another legal snag yesterday when the D.C. District Court issued an order vacating EPA’s current stay of two of its Boiler MACT rules. EPA put the rules on hold after a tumultuous rule-making process that included an extended comment...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released a new bipartisan staff report that details the findings from the committee’s investigation into the 2011 Listeria outbreak in cantaloupes grown and processed at Jensen Farms. The report is based on documents from and interviews with food...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: Similar to the way pavement, softened by a hot sun, will slow down a car, graphene-a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon with wondrous properties-slows down an object sliding across its surface. But stack the sheets and graphene gets more slippery, say theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), who developed new software to quantify the material's friction.
