News from March 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have done a mash-up of two very different experimental techniques-neutron scattering and electrochemical measurements-to enable them to observe structural changes in nanoparticles as they undergo an important type of chemical reaction.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: Mount Rainier Superintendent Randy King is pleased to announce that Supervisory Climbing Ranger Glenn Kessler and former Mount Rainier Seasonal Climbing Ranger Paul Charlton have been honored as recipients of the Department of Interior's Valor Award. The awards were presented by Secretary of the Interior Salazar this week at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. This award is in recognition of the actions that Kessler and Charlton took in rescues on Ingraham Glacier on June 6, 2002.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: National Park Service News Release. - March 6, 2012. Contacts Name: ERIC CAMPBELL (540) 868-9176. Special National Park Service Programs to Commemorate 150th Anniversary of “Stonewall" Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign. Middletown, VA ----- Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, in partnership...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today President Obama laid out another piece of an “All of the Above" energy plan to address the pain consumers are currently feeling at the pump. The plan calls for incentives to deploy electric vehicles and other alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure through a community-centered...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: Due to the death of Representative Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), a senior member of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, tomorrow’s hearing entitled, "Ensuring Regulations Protect Access to Affordable and Quality Companion Care," has been postponed.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs will hold an oversight hearing on the FY 2013 budget requests for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As part of Chairman Doc Hastings’...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 2842, the Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act of 2011 - a plan to create new American jobs and expand production of clean, renewable hydropower by cutting duplicative, bureaucratic red tape.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: Organic solar cells may be a step closer to market because of measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where a team of scientists has developed a better fundamental understanding of how to optimize the cells' performance.*
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: In a letter to the bill’s sponsors - Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Jay Rockefeller, D-West. Va., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. -- CompTIA said it appreciated being included in discussions about the legislation.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At a Congressional forum held today to examine efforts to increase diversity and eliminate hazing in the military, General Lester Lyles, the former Chairman of the Military Leadership Diversity Commission, reported in a new assessment that, although some progress has been made, the military has failed to fully implement 14 of 19 recommendations made in a report issued by the Commission nearly a year ago.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: As spring approaches, peregrine falcons will begin their return to nesting sites along the Upper Yukon River, an annual migration of a once-endangered population whose numbers and breeding success rates are stabilizing.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: “The only way we are going to solve this problem is with an all-of-the-above strategy."
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: The University of Miami/Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (UM/RSMAS), in collaboration with Biscayne National Park, will present an exhibition entitled Under the Sea at Biscayne National Park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery from March 9th to June 3, 2012. A "Nearly Full Moon" opening reception will be held from 7-9 p.m. on Friday, March 9, at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center located at 9700 SW 328 Street, 9 miles east of Homestead, Florida.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act (H.R. 452), the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act (H.R. 3309), and the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act (H.R. 3310).
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: “The only way we are going to solve this problem is with an all-of-the-above strategy."
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) have requested that the Obama Administration conduct a complete assessment of federal agency guidelines for the monitoring of employee’s personal email accounts. Grassley and Issa are conducting investigations into Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actions against nine employees who were whistleblowers to Congress about inappropriate actions they witnessed inside the agency.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold an oversight hearing on the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (OSM) Fiscal Year 2013 budget. The hearing will also be an opportunity to focus on the Obama Administration’s actions...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act (H.R. 452), the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act (H.R. 3309), and the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act (H.R. 3310).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: “The only way we are going to solve this problem is with an all-of-the-above strategy."
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 126,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to South Korea during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
