News from March 2012
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), hosted a hearing today to examine the nation’s growing prescription drug problem and discuss ways to fight diversion of controlled painkillers, which are now causing more deaths in this country than heroin and cocaine combined.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: New Stock Corrals at Lassen Volcanic National Park Are Available for Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Ashford, WA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,191,754 visitors in 2010 spent $35,389,000 in Mount Rainier National Park and in communities near the park. That spending supported 505 jobs in the local areas.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that more than 650,000 visitors in 2010 spent $26.6 million in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and in communities near the park. That spending supported more than 375 jobs in the local area.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Collecting data on what the U.S. population actually consumes is a key nutrition monitoring step. Nutritionists then translate "foods eaten" into "nutrients consumed." This snapshot of the population's food-nutrient intakes provides an overview of the nation's nutritional health status and health outcomes. Now, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers are providing data on dietary supplement intakes also collected during the annual national government survey.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, HI - Hawaiʻi Island Hawksbill Turtle Recovery Project recorded one of its most historic sea turtle nesting seasons in 22 years, including the first recorded green turtle nesting on the island of Hawaiʻi, a rare daytime nesting by a hawksbill turtle, and an increase in the number of newly tagged female hawksbills.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Originally presented on March 1, 2012, during the Reservation Economic Summit (RES) 2012, this presentation provides an overview of a project development framework and financing options; demonstrating how renewable energy projects attract capital financing and are structured over the phases of the project. Download the RES 2012 presentation.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the Department of Health and Human Services’ Fiscal Year 2013 budget. Members focused on how the government takeover of our nation’s health care system is exacerbating...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Dan Coats (R-IN), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Richard Burr (R-NC) today introduced the Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information, and Technology Act (SECURE IT), their proposal to protect and secure our nation against cybersecurity attacks.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sent the following letter to the White House calling on the president to fully enforce the sanctions on Iran, and to not tap America’s emergency oil stockpiles prematurely, in light of the growing possibility of a major oil supply disruption:
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the Department of Health and Human Services’ Fiscal Year 2013 budget. Members focused on how the government takeover of our nation’s health care system is exacerbating...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Point Reyes Station - The National Park Service (NPS) has posted 52,473 public comment letters on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit to the park's web page (www.nps.gov/pore/parkmgmt/planning_dboc_sup.htm). Letters were submitted from every state, all of the United States commonwealths and territories, as well as 40 countries. Thirty-seven percent of the correspondence came from California.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today delivered the following speech on the Senate floor on the introduction of the “SECURE IT" Act to strengthen cybersecurity.
