News from March 2012
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the winners of a competition that challenges collegiate students to develop and present real-world solutions to boost the energy efficiency of buildings across the country. Secretary...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: "During this hearing, I am particularly interested in learning more about how you prioritize your many areas of responsibility since your portfolio covers such a broad spectrum of issues ranging from get-rich-quick schemes to consumer privacy, among many others. The budget request for the coming fiscal year is $300 million, which is a decrease from the current year, so I look forward to hearing about whether this amount is adequate to cover your diverse needs.".
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today announced that he has named Mildred Otero as the Majority’s new Chief Education Counsel.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: Dear Majority Leader Reid and Minority Leader McConnell...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District is leading an ambitious effort to restore the Yellow Bar Hassock Marsh Islands, in Jamaica Bay, N.Y. The project addresses the vanishing marsh islands by beneficially using clean sand from the New York- New Jersey Harbor deepening project...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2012
News Release: Monday March 5, 2012, Everglades National Park Fire and Aviation Division will conduct a prescribed fire burn in the East Everglades District of the park. General location of the fire is south of US 41/Tamiami Trail into park lands and East of the Shark Valley park entrance and Visitor Center and east of the L-67 canal. (Fire location - 25 42 36 N, 80 43 16 W).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the announcement that a settlement was reached between BP and the lawyers for the families and businesses affected by the company’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Rep. Ed Markey, the leading Congressional investigator into the spill, issued the following statement...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Today Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano called Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - As required by Congress, Public Law 112-10, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today issued the Updated Site-Specific Risk Assessment (SSRA) for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Office of the Press Secretary, 202-282-8010 DOJ Office of Public Affairs, 202-514-2007 Memorandum of Understanding (PDF, 6 pages - 1.1. MB) OTTAWA, Canada—U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today visited Ottawa, Canada to participate ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Community-driven conservation and outdoor recreation initiatives powering economy, protecting healthy lands, water and wildlife WASHINGTON, March 2, 2012 – Today, President Obama and members of his Cabinet convened the White House Conference on Conservation to engage directly with conservation leaders ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Agency conservation education grants will benefit children's projects across 18 states WASHINGTON, March 2, 2012–Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced USDA's continuing commitment to get kids outdoors and connected to the natural world around them through $1 million in cost-share funding ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: White House Rural Council Partnership to Strengthen Skills of Rural Workers to Compete in Global Marketplace WASHINGTON, March 2, 2012 – Officials from USDA Rural Development today signed an agreement (MOU) with rural community colleges to strengthen the rural economy by increasing rural residents' access ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2012–Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the opportunity for producers to enroll a total of 1 million acres of land in a new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) initiative to preserve grasslands and wetlands. Vilsack will highlight the announcement later today at the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against the Florida-based Technological Research and Development Authority (TRDA), the Justice Department announced today. The suit was filed in the Southern District of Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Redmond, Ore., man was convicted yesterday of seven counts of wire fraud by a federal jury in Boston, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz of the District of Massachusetts announced today. Ryan Harris, 26, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Enrique Gomez De Molina, 48, of Miami Beach, Fla., was sentenced in federal court in Miami today to 20 months in prison for illegal trafficking in endangered and protected wildlife, announced Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today visited Ottawa, Canada to participate in the Cross-Border Crime Forum with Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General Rob Nicholson, and Canadian Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews. Secretary Napolitano, Attorney General Holder and Minister Toews also signed a memorandum of understanding to better prevent and combat human smuggling and trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Brandon Rhodes, 20, of Marengo, Ohio, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge related to the burning of a cross in the yard of an African-American juvenile in March 2011, the Justice Department announced today. Rhodes pleaded guilty to conspiracy to interfere with the housing rights of another ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Edy Oliverez-Jiminez, aka “Daniel,” Erasmo,” “Ulysses” and “Jesus,” 25, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced today to two consecutive life terms on prison, after having been convicted by a jury for racketeering, murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents.
