News from March 2012
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Vandalism to the trailhead facilities at the Mt. Helen Trailhead, located in the southern portion of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, was recently discovered by National Park Service staff. Damage occurred to the trailhead bulletin board and trail directional signs. Although these...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced the commencement of the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) process. Members wishing to...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans to unknown destinations during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today regarding Japan’s reduction in its corporate tax rate to 36.8 percent from 39.8 percent, leaving the United States as the nation having the highest corporate tax rate in the world at 39.2 percent...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: BALTIMORE - Federal and state law enforcement officers including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, prosecutors and victim advocates were recognized March 30 by the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office for their service and commitment to the...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today announced the process for Senators to introduce individual bills for possible inclusion in a miscellaneous tariff bill (MTB). In the announcement, Baucus emphasized that individual bills must, in accordance with long-running...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking whether his department has looked into an ongoing gas leak at a North Sea drilling platform and whether sufficient protections are in place to prevent a similar incident in U.S. waters.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: LANE CLOSURE ON LAKESHORE ROAD. LAS VEGAS- The southbound travel lane of Lakeshore Road within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area will be closed for construction at mile marker 1.5 for 100 yards April 3 through April 5, 2012. Additionally, the maximum speed limit will be reduced from 50 mph to 20...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the U.S. House unanimously rejected President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget by a vote of 414 to 0, the president urged Congress to “double down " on a stimulus energy program his FY2013 budget seeks to extend. The president made his comments just...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Republican members pushed back strongly this week against EPA’s new proposed rule regulating greenhouse gases for new coal plants. In a hearing Wednesday with EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy, Republican members of Subcommittee on Energy and Power blasted the administration’s actions to shut...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Republican members pushed back strongly this week against EPA’s new proposed rule regulating greenhouse gases for new coal plants. In a hearing Wednesday with EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy, Republican members of Subcommittee on Energy and Power blasted the administration’s actions to shut...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Republican members pushed back strongly this week against EPA’s new proposed rule regulating greenhouse gases for new coal plants. In a hearing Wednesday with EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy, Republican members of Subcommittee on Energy and Power blasted the administration’s actions to shut...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded today’s decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve construction and operating licenses for two new nuclear reactors at SCANA’s V.C. Summer plant in South Carolina. After over three decades of inaction, this is the second pair of new reactors approved by the NRC this year.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will host the Twelfth Annual Spring Planting Day Celebration on Saturday, April 28, 2012. The event will take place in the areas adjacent to the Bandy Creek Visitor Center and the Lora Blevins home place from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. EDT.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the U.S. House unanimously rejected President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget by a vote of 414 to 0, the president urged Congress to “double down " on a stimulus energy program his FY2013 budget seeks to extend. The president made his comments just...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and other members of the committee wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today with a series...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As part of President Obama’s all of the above approach to energy, the Obama Administration today joined with the governors of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will streamline the efficient and...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded today’s decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve construction and operating licenses for two new nuclear reactors at SCANA’s V.C. Summer plant in South Carolina. After over three decades of inaction, this is the second pair of new reactors approved by the NRC this year.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and other members of the committee wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today with a series...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and other members of the committee wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today with a series...
