News from July 2012
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today released the text of their draft bill the “No More Solyndras Act." The legislation is a product of the committee’s investigation into the $535 million...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today released the text of their draft bill the “No More Solyndras Act." The legislation is a product of the committee’s investigation into the $535 million...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today made the following remarks on the House floor during debate of H.R. 6079, which fully repeals the president’s health care law...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Rep. Ed Whitfield, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has scheduled a second, bipartisan forum on “State, Local and Federal Cooperation under the Clean Air Act," for Thursday, Aug. 2, at 2:00 p.m. This will be the committee’s second meeting on this subject, following the initial forum scheduled for Tuesday, July 31.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park's Citizen Science Program announces two opportunities to help with early detection of invasive plants along park trails: Noxious Weed Blitz on July 17 and an on-line training course for the Invasive Plant Citizen Science program. Both opportunities are free of charge and open to the public.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today unveiled draft legislation, H.R. 6082, the Congressional Replacement of President Obama’s Energy-Restricting and Job-Limiting Offshore Drilling Plan, to implement a new lease plan for developing the United States’ offshore energy resources over the next five years. A Full Committee markup of the bill will be held on Wednesday, July 11th July 18th.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner David V. Aguilar and Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin will travel to Brazil, the Dominican Republic, ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 9, 2012 - The U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior, Department of Defense and FEMA continue to support efforts to protect life, public safety and aid in community recovery from wildfires and subsequent flash flooding in multiple Western states. On June 28, President Obama ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: An indictment charging five individuals involved in the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was unsealed today in Tucson, and a reward of up to $1 million from the FBI for information leading to the arrest of four fugitives, was announced by Department of Justice officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement in its lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC). The settlement, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, resolves allegations that PDOC violated the reemployment rights ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: ADC Telecommunications Inc. will pay the United States $1 million to resolve allegations that the company submitted false claims to federal agencies when it sold telecommunications goods manufactured in countries prohibited by the Trade Agreements Act (TAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: A former U.S. civilian contractor was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for conspiring to steal military generators in Iraq and selling them on the black market, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank Opinion Editorial, Denver Post "New Patent Office in Denver will Spur Innovation, Jobs" Thomas Edison received more than 1,000 U.S. patents as the inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first practical light bulb, to name a few. And, as a true entrepreneur, Edison worked to put his inventions on productions lines of American factories so that people everywhere could buy them.
By DOE Gazette | Jul 9, 2012
The US Energy Department published a four page proposed rule on July 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 9, 2012
The US Agriculture Department published a two page rule on July 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 9, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on July 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 9, 2012
The US Agriculture Department published a three page rule on July 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 9, 2012
The US Commerce Department published a four page rule on July 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 9, 2012
The US Agriculture Department published a four page rule on July 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 9, 2012
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on July 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
