News from May 2012
By DOT News Wire | May 23, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: The remaining 1.5 miles of the road to Exit Glacier will open this Friday, May 25 at 8:00 a.m. Due to continued freezing temperatures at night, the water to the restrooms may not be able to be turned on for the Memorial Day weekend. Vault toilets will be available.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Beltsville, Md.-New research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirms that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide facilitates the flow of genes from wild or weedy rice plants to domesticated rice varieties. As a result, domesticated plants could take on undesirable weedy characteristics that may interfere with future rice production.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 2012 - obtained by the House Natural Resources Committee raise significant questions into the science used by the Obama Administration to justify a 20-year ban on uranium development on one million acres of federal land in Arizona. In the emails, scientists within the National...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, called on his colleagues in the Senate to support his amendment to repeal the job-killing medical device tax that was included in the $2.6 trillion health spending law. Hatch filed the amendment to S. 3187, the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act which is being debated in the Senate this week.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on a produce business for failure to pay a reparation award issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By State Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Dear President Rogge: We write to express our disappointment with the International Olympic Committee’s refusal of requests for a minute-long moment of silence at the 2012 Olympic Games in memory of the 11 Israeli Olympians who were taken hostage and killed by Palestinian violent extremists at the 1972...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - In a Committee hearing held today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) looked at innovative methods from the private sector that can help Medicare improve patient care and lower costs to save taxpayer dollars. Those new methods reward doctors for the quality of care...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following remarks at a committee hearing examining the progress of health care delivery in the nation...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Albert Einstein once said “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.".
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) yesterday sent a to the Department of the Interior’s Acting Inspector General (IG) Mary Kendall to question her about discrepancies between her testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: FARMINGTON, Pa., - The National Park Service will host encampments at Fort Necessity National Battlefield and Jumonville Glen over the next two weekends. Re-enactors will present accurate portrayals of dress, customs, manners, and activities of historic soldiers. Dressed in authentic costume, they will interpret the events that occurred and their impact on world history and offer illuminating facts about military life on the 1750s frontier.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - An environmental analysis and review process for the Rose Creek Fish Barrier Removal and Bridge Replacement Project has been completed, and a decision was signed by the National Park Service Intermountain Regional Director to move forward on the project.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Randy King and General Highway Administration, Western Federal Lands Highway Division officials announce that Phase 2 of the planned rehabilitation of 10 miles of Stevens Canyon Road was awarded to Tucci and Sons, Inc. of Tacoma, WA for $8,910,093.23 with a Notice to Proceed issued for project start on May 29, 2012 and a contract completion date of Sept. 17, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Effective immediately, the speed limit between Highway 74A and Highway 25 (Hendersonville Road) will be reduced from 45 miles per hour to 35 miles per hour. This speed limit change is aimed at improving the safety of motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians through the Asheville Corridor.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Washington - As part of a continuing effort to build a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that meets the evolving needs of a 21st-century agricultural economy, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today announced changes to the regulations governing the Market Access Program (MAP) that will clarify...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: HONOLULU - This week the National Park Service Getaway travels to Hawaii, to the site that marked the end of life for 2,390 Americans and the beginning of World War II for this nation.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC -Two Department of Energy (DOE)-supported programs are helping the Crow Tribe in Montana produce energy with minimal environmental impact, educate future generations, and prepare its community for future jobs in energy fields.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON DC - Pledging to keep the instruments they love free from illegally-harvested wood, some of the biggest names in the music industry are taking aim at the effort in Congress to eliminate the law that prevents importation of wood from protected forests.
