News from March 2012
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), today held a hearing to discuss the president’s new privacy proposal and to consider whether it strikes the right balance between protecting privacy and preserving Internet growth.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: Measurements taken by a team including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists show that a newly devised material has the ability to separate closely related components of natural gas from one another, a task that currently demands a good deal of energy to accomplish. The results, published March 30, 2012, in the journal Science, might improve the efficiency of the distillation process.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), today held a hearing to discuss the president’s new privacy proposal and to consider whether it strikes the right balance between protecting privacy and preserving Internet growth.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - One of the world’s fastest supercomputers will be installed at the Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) this summer to help develop solutions to carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology barriers.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS), in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), is considering replacing or retrofitting the Rock Creek Bridge on the Denali Park Road at Denali National Park and Preserve. This project would take place during the summer of 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, Thursday announced the support of 21 new cosponsors for the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act. The announcement came days after a coalition of 35 organizations endorsed the legislation.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - With the House expected to pass its Budget Committee’s plan this week, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) vowed today to fight it in the Senate, calling it an unfair plan to end Medicare’s guaranteed benefits, undermine our health programs and give unbalanced tax...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Following the Senate's action this afternoon to pass the House of Representatives' 90-day stop gap extension of transportation programs, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) Chairwoman of the Committee, today introduced legislation to establish a foundation to solicit private donations to enhance research for the most pressing challenge facing U.S. agriculture - meeting exploding global demand.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, made the following opening statement at today’s hearing on gasoline price trends:
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), today held a hearing to discuss the president’s new privacy proposal and to consider whether it strikes the right balance between protecting privacy and preserving Internet growth.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: Washington DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that the Committee conduct transcribed interviews of two former members of the National Labor Relations Board, Peter Schaumber and Peter Kirsanow, who obtained insider information from a current Board member, Terrance Flynn.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today delivered remarks at the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) 2012 Mid-Year Policy & Leadership Forum highlighting the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) ongoing partnerships with state, local, tribal and territorial emergency management leaders and personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Julie Matau, 49, and her daughter, Andrea Matau, 28, each were sentenced yesterday in Oakland, Calif., for their participation in the theft of nearly $160,000 in federal grant funds from a now-defunct nonprofit American Samoa legal services corporation, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: Universal Health Services Inc. (UHS) and two subsidiaries have reached a settlement in a False Claims Act lawsuit with the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Justice Department announced today. Under the settlement, UHS and its subsidiaries, Keystone Education and Youth Services LLC ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Coltec Industries Inc. and National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) have agreed to pay a civil penalty of $280,000 and spend approximately $500,000 on an environmental project to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA’s marine diesel engine air rules, the Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department reached a settlement agreement today with Onward Healthcare, a healthcare staffing company based in Wilton, Conn., resolving allegations that the company posted discriminatory job advertisements on its home page and third party websites that limited its jobs to U.S. citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: The United States has filed civil injunction lawsuits in five cities seeking to shut down both the company that operates Instant Tax Service (ITS) as well as five owners of ITS franchises, the Justice Department announced today. According to government complaints filed in the cases, the franchising company ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland returned a 10-count superseding indictment in United States v. Mullet, et al. The superseding indictment charges 10 men and six women, all residents of Ohio, with federal crimes arising out of a series of religiously-motivated assaults on practitioners of the Amish religion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2012
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today issued the 2012 edition of its annual newsletter on its website. The newsletter highlights recent activities and successes on civil and criminal enforcement, international cooperation and competition advocacy of the Antitrust Division for the general public as well as the legal and business communities.
