News from May 2012
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement in response to a supplemental report issued today by the Inspector General for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) revealing multiple additional leaks of confidential, ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: Dear Secretaries Geithner, Clinton, and Bryson and Ambassador Kirk...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: On May 29, North Hill will present a program entitled, "The Kennedy Brothers Speak" in honor of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's 95th birthday at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. At the heart of the program are three pivotal Kennedy speeches: John F. Kennedy's speech at American University, Robert...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: MUNISING, Mich. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore's 2012 "Adopt-a-Trail, Adopt-a-Campsite and Adopt-a-Beach" orientation and training session will be held Saturday, May 12, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. It will be held at the Munising Falls Visitor Center located at 1505 Sand Point Road, across from the Munising Memorial Hospital.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: Denver, CO, May 2, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight field hearing on the draft Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hydraulic fracturing regulations that could have significant consequences for natural gas and oil development on federal lands, job creation...
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"-in some sense they travel faster than the speed of light.* The technique, called four-wave mixing, reshapes parts of light pulses and advances them ahead...
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and published a new protocol for communicating with biometric sensors over wired and wireless networks-using some of the same technologies that underpin the web.
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the successful completion of a joint U.S. Department of Energy and Japan field test of technology capable of extracting natural gas from methane hydrates locked in the ice of Alaska’s North Slope.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop V on June 5-7, 2012, at the Department of Commerce's Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: BOISE, IDAHO - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation has selected the Boise Project Board of Control of Boise, Idaho, to receive $39,813 in WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grant funding to stretch water supplies and conserve energy in the western United States.
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the completion of a successful, unprecedented test of technology in the North Slope of Alaska that was able to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates - a vast, entirely untapped resource that holds enormous potential...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: Fort Sumter National Monument will host a book signing for the new publication The Life and Legacy of Robert Smalls of South Carolina's Sea Islands. The signing will be held at 2:15 PM on Friday, May 11, 2012 at Liberty Square, located at 340 Concord Street in Charleston.
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the completion of a successful, unprecedented test of technology in the North Slope of Alaska that was able to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates - a vast, entirely untapped resource that holds enormous potential...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: On April 28, aspiring Junior Rangers of all ages came to John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site to help celebrate National Junior Ranger Day. The culmination of National Park week, this event invites families to explore the special places right in their own backyard. Working with the Park Rangers...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - A woman whose body was recovered Friday from below Trail View Overlook on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park has been identified as 67-year old Elizabeth Miller of Phoenix, Arizona.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation has selected $32.2 million in WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grants and Title XVI Projects and Feasibility Studies to stretch water supplies and conserve energy in the western United States.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: Using a refined technique for trapping and manipulating nanoparticles, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have extended the trapped particles' useful life more than tenfold.* This new approach, which one researcher likens to "attracting moths," promises to give experimenters...
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) approval of Incidental Harassment Authorization permits for Shell Oil’s planned exploration this summer in Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) issued the following joint statement on the letter received last night from United States Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan in response to the committee’s April 18, 2012, questions about agent misconduct in Cartagena, Columbia...
By USDA Newswire | May 2, 2012
Release: By Son Siveth, Project Manager, International Relief & Development.
