News from July 2012
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of Energy and Commerce Committee members today unveiled new legislation designed to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) authored the bipartisan legislation, which calls for the approval of construction and operation of the northern portion...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats seem to have forgotten the President’s promise that his failed near trillion-dollar stimulus would prevent unemployment from going over 8 percent and that it would be “timely, targeted and temporary." Their latest tax hike bill hits small and growing businesses - the engines...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today joined dozens of members in urging the Federal Communications Commission to avoid expansive interpretation of the “program carriage" rules. The members are concerned with unnecessary government red tape saddling the video marketplace.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today joined dozens of members in urging the Federal Communications Commission to avoid expansive interpretation of the “program carriage" rules. The members are concerned with unnecessary government red tape saddling the video marketplace.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today joined dozens of members in urging the Federal Communications Commission to avoid expansive interpretation of the “program carriage" rules. The members are concerned with unnecessary government red tape saddling the video marketplace.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of Energy and Commerce Committee members today unveiled new legislation designed to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) authored the bipartisan legislation, which calls for the approval of construction and operation of the northern portion...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of Energy and Commerce Committee members today unveiled new legislation designed to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) authored the bipartisan legislation, which calls for the approval of construction and operation of the northern portion...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - A Carnegie Mellon University professor who worked with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) on research that could help meet carbon capture goals has earned a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: It's not always easy to judge the success of collaboration. But thanks to five years of teamwork in the Dry Tortugas, anglers across Florida are seeing the collaborative benefits: more fish.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: As announced Tuesday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the National Park Service (NPS) and the City of New York plan to establish a top-tier science research center focused on urban ecosystem restoration and resiliency within Jamaica Bay. Today the two government...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: Over the past two decades, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have become ubiquitous, with applications in cell phones, ink-jet printers, accelerometers and inertial sensors, tiny transducers and actuators, and scores of other devices. Increasing numbers of applications in the near future are anticipated in the health care arena with, for example, point of care testing.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - This morning, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) delivered the following remarks at the international AIDS 2012 conference.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2012
News Release: The exhibition "Wild Florida" by local photographer Phoenix will be on display during the month of August at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center Art Gallery in Everglades National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2012
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is currently host to two highly invasive plants species: reed canarygrass on the maintenance hillside and perennial sowthistle on Strawberry Island. Since manual control efforts have proven ineffective in the past six years the sites are scheduled to be treated with herbicide next week.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2012
News Release: On Saturday afternoon, July 21, Everglades National Park Rangers joined with the Coast Guard in searching for a missing visitor.William Crick, a 66 year old resident of Palm Beach Gardens, who went missing at around 2:30 pm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2012
News Release: It was fall 2010. Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles received word that a School of Rubens painting, stolen from a German museum during World War II, was consigned to an auction house. A quick search of a database used by law enforcement officers revealed that the German government had reported that the painting went missing in 1945.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2012
News Release: The next episode of Waterways ventures 70 miles west of Key West, Florida, to Dry Tortugas National Park, where park staff, masons, conservation specialists and the 482nd Civil Engineers Squadron from Homestead Air Reserve Base are hard at work preserving Fort Jefferson.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2012
News Release: The next episode of Waterways ventures 70 miles west of Key West, Florida, to Dry Tortugas National Park, where park staff, masons, conservation specialists and the 482nd Civil Engineers Squadron from Homestead Air Reserve Base are hard at work preserving Fort Jefferson.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2012
News Release: On Tuesday, July 24th, an informational meeting will be held at Women's Rights National Historical Park between 6:30 - 8:30PM to communicate what the National Park Service is doing to lay the foundation for the "Votes for Women History Trail Route." All are welcome to attend.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2012
News Release: Sixty-eight years ago, on July 21, 1944, American troops spilled blood and wrote history. At that time, Guam became a fiercely contested battleground, an island in the Pacific that militaries fought and killed for. The bravery and the sacrifice of those who participated in the Pacific campaigns of World...
