News from June 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: Guest blog post by Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River will be hosting a nature hike on Saturday June 16. The hike will be on the Point Trail located off of the Overlook Trail at Lilly. This hike will be 3.8 miles round trip. If you plan on participating, plan accordingly with the weather conditions, wear appropriate clothing and shoes, and bring enough food and water for the duration of the hike. Meet at Lilly Bluff Overlook parking at 10:00 a.m. ET. Hope to see you out there!.
By DOE 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full committee will vote on several pieces of legislation that will support the nation’s manufacturing sector, remove outdated regulations and red-tape, maintain grid reliability, and protect the Internet.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 Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: WARTBURG, Tennessee: The National Park Service invites photographers to submit entries for an exhibit at the Obed Wild and Scenic River Visitor Center. The National Park Service is looking for striking digital images of nature, highlighting the diversity of life in the park.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed update to its clean air standards for harmful soot pollution.
By EPA 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full committee will vote on several pieces of legislation that will support the nation’s manufacturing sector, remove outdated regulations and red-tape, maintain grid reliability, and protect the Internet.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 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 Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: Prescribed Fire will be Located near Big Oak Flat Entrance Station.
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 Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: Attention Kids and Adults! Come out on Saturday, June 23rd, and help Ranger Chance Melton measure river water quality. You will help look for and identify samples of various benthic macro invertebrates. You will then learn how these critters can be used to determine the river's water quality and about...
By DOE 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 Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2012
News Release: *Note: This press release is courtesy of our partners at the Inyo National Forest.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement regarding President Obama's speech on the economy...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 14, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 14, 2012 -- Today, USDA released the annual report, Expenditures on Children by Families, finding that a middle-income family with a child born in 2011 can expect to spend about $234,900 ($295,560 if projected inflation costs are factored in*) for food, shelter, and other necessities ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in prison for engaging in bribery related to his work as a contracting officer’s representative in Kuwait from 2004 to 2006, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – R. Allen Stanford, the former board of directors chairman of Stanford International Bank (SIB), was sentenced today in Houston to a total of 110 years in prison for orchestrating a 20-year investment fraud scheme in which he misappropriated $7 billion from SIB to finance his personal businesses. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2012
News Release: Today in federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina, a jury found Anes Subasic, 35, guilty of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad, announced Thomas G. Walker, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Seven individuals and four check cashing businesses were charged today in the Eastern District of New York and the Central District of California for their alleged roles in separate schemes to violate the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). The defendants allegedly failed to follow reporting and anti-money laundering requirements for transactions totaling more than $50 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department announced that it has reached an agreement with Grayson County, Va., that will allow for the county and its four political subdivisions, the Grayson County School District and the towns of Independence, Fries and Troutdale, Va., to bail out from their status as “covered jurisdictions” ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Charges were unsealed this morning against a Pennsylvania man, alleging that he hacked into computer networks in Massachusetts and around the country and then sold unauthorized access to those networks.
