News from July 2012
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
The US Interior Department published a one page proposed rule on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - British investigators closed their investigation today to find the culprits who stole and distributed emails from East Anglia University related to work and discussions of climate change science. The investigators found that the hacking incident was not conducted within the university, and abandoned efforts to bring the real culprits to justice.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Hiking Advisory: Visitors to Mount Rainier National Park are advised that a new closure is in effect on the Comet Falls Trail from approximately 1/4 mile below Comet Falls to the River crossing above Comet Falls in Van Trump Park. This closure is due to an abundant amount of avalanche debris in the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - A section twice the size of the island of Manhattan has broken off of the Petermann glacier in Greenland due to warmer ocean temperatures in the latest event in what has been a dangerous, destructive and troubling season of extreme weather. Heat waves have gripped the United States, breaking...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) made the following statements after the Senate Finance Committee today approved bipartisan legislation granting Permanent Normal Trade Relations status to Russia that includes strong enforcement provisions...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today praised committee approval of legislation granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Russia and expanding U.S. trade with sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Hatch worked with Chairman Max...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement in response to Republicans opposing an initiative by the Department of Health and Human Services to consider requests from the states to operate demonstration projects within the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to help recipients prepare for, find and maintain employment...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Michigan) introduced legislation, the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act, that would prohibit the Obama Administration from unilaterally granting...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA Rural Development is accepting pre-applications for loans and grants to build or rehabilitate rural rental housing for domestic farmworkers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today called on the Department of Interior to ensure the protection of communities in their current consideration of the rules that will govern the potential disposal of coal ash in abandoned mine shafts and to fill and reshape mountaintops destroyed by mining operations.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: To promote economic growth in tribal communities, Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published new guidance on July 18, 2012, allocating Tribal Economic Development Bonds (TEDBs). The TEDB program was established under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, and provides Tribes with...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: As part of the U.S. Energy Department's commitment to give American businesses more options to cut energy costs and reduce reliance on imported oil, the Department today announced a $1.4 million investment to Wallingford- based Proton Energy Systems to collect and analyze performance data for hydrogen...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 18, 2012 - The non-partisan Congressional Research Service this week released a new comparing President Obama's offshore drilling lease plan for 2012-2017 with previous plans offered over the last 30 years by prior Administrations. As the chart below shows, the 15 lease sales in President Obama's new plan represent the lowest number of lease sales ever offered in a plan since the process began in 1980.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Bonus bids at the Bureau of Land Management's July 17 oil and gas lease sale in Billings totaled $3,397,124.The highest single-parcel bid was $880,000 submitted by Serka Services LLC of Vienna, Virginia, for an 80-acre Forest Service parcel located in Billings County, North Dakota. Serka Services LLC...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced legislation, the Preserving Work Requirements ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: There will be a site visit on July 26 at 10 a.m. EDT (9 a.m. CDT) starting at the Big South Fork Bandy Creek Visitor Center for all persons interested in submitting a proposal to operate horse, mule, donkey and llama stall rentals and a camp store in the Bandy Creek area in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area located in Oneida, Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R -Calif., sponsor of H.R. 2146, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, today released the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY --Local landscape artists Tom Hussey, Auburn, and Bev Lombardo, Seneca Falls, are August's featured artists in EN PLEIN AIR, a collaboration between the park and the Seneca County Arts Council. Their regional landscapes in a variety of media will be on display August 3-September 3 in...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: Labor, HHS, Education. Full Committee Ranking Member Rep. Norm Dicks. Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Rosa Delauro. Delauro Report on Labor, HHS, Education Spending. Total Spending in the Labor-HHS-Education Bill: Over the Past Ten Years, Just Roughly Keeping Up with Inflation.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard Wednesday that leadership and adequate funding are necessary for the success of federal financial transparency, and the Treasury Department is working to expand the transparency and accountability of how billions of taxpayer dollars are spent.
