News from June 2012
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - Two domain names and three PayPal accounts were seized Friday, in connection with a scheme to sell fraudulent store and rewards coupons, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security released the following statement in response to the announcement today, by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), that the Transportation Worker Identification...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WILLIAMS, Ariz. - The Grand Fire, burning on both the Kaibab National Forest and Grand Canyon National Park, experienced no growth today and remains at about 480 acres in size. Containment is now at 90 percent. Full containment of the fire is expected early next week; and fire managers have begun releasing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) praised the policy announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano that grants immigration officials the discretion to defer deportation action against certain young undocumented immigrants. These same individuals ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: The National Park Service Northeast Region selected Daniel Mazzotti of Gettysburg National Military Park as one of three regional recipients of the Appleman-Judd-Lewis Award. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to cultural resource stewardship in three categories-one for a cultural resource...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: HOUSTON, TX - Joselito Flores Mercado, 49, and Jose Alberto DeLeon, 34, have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in connection with a seizure of more than 1,900 pounds of marijuana in the Houston area, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: Due to the continued very high fire danger and current level of fire activity in the State of Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep National Monuments.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., issued the following statement Friday on the Administration’s announcement that certain young immigrants would not be deported.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-A new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform documents a critical shortage of generic injectable medications that has occurred following enforcement activity by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at companies and facilities where the drugs are made.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Rangers at Wind Cave National Park will be offering a variety of interpretive programs this summer. Thirty tours a day will be offered through the world's fifth-longest cave each day beginning at 8:40 a.m. with the last tour entering the cave at 6 p.m. New this year will be tours of the Sanson Buffalo Jump on weekends and a bird walk on Monday mornings.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 18. The full committee will vote on several pieces of legislation that will support the nation’s manufacturing sector, remove outdated regulations and red-tape, maintain grid reliability, and protect the Internet. Finally, the committee will vote on its third Semi-Annual Committee Activity Report to the House.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency today announced its new proposal to tighten national standards for fine particulate matter. EPA has proposed revisions to lower the annual standard from 15 micrograms per cubic meter to a new standard of 12 to 13 micrograms per cubic meter, and to make certain other revisions to the current standards.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency today announced its new proposal to tighten national standards for fine particulate matter. EPA has proposed revisions to lower the annual standard from 15 micrograms per cubic meter to a new standard of 12 to 13 micrograms per cubic meter, and to make certain other revisions to the current standards.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: Berlin, MD - Superintendent Trish Kicklighter today announced that a new area of Assateague Island National Seashore will be temporarily closed to public use in order to protect breeding Piping Plovers.The closed area includes the portion of the public Over-Sand Vehicle (OSV) route south of kilometer...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today the State Department published in the Federal Register the Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare a Supplemental EIS (SEIS) for the second Keystone XL Presidential Permit application. The SEIS will supplement the State Department’s FIES issued last August, which found the pipeline will...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed President Obama’s signing of the Salmon Lake Land Selection Resolution Act into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today issued the following statements applauding the World Trade Organization’s finding in favor of the United States in a dispute with China regarding its imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on grain-oriented flat-rolled electrical steel (GOES) from the United States...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency today announced its new proposal to tighten national standards for fine particulate matter. EPA has proposed revisions to lower the annual standard from 15 micrograms per cubic meter to a new standard of 12 to 13 micrograms per cubic meter, and to make certain other revisions to the current standards.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today the State Department published in the Federal Register the Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare a Supplemental EIS (SEIS) for the second Keystone XL Presidential Permit application. The SEIS will supplement the State Department’s FIES issued last August, which found the pipeline will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: BOISE, ID. - Miguel Beltran-Marquez, 35, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced on June 14, 2012, to 188 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
