News from November 2012
By DOT News Wire | Nov 16, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: Honolulu - Free evening boat tours of Pearl Harbor will be offered on Dec. 14, 15 and 16 by the National Park Service and Pearl City Lions Club in cooperation with the U.S. Navy and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.The 30-minute harbor tours will feature Christmas music and views of ships and submarines...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore Superintendent Pat Kenney reported that a damage assessment performed in the wake of Hurricane Sandy revealed that the Methodist Church in Historic Portsmouth Village sustained structural damage. National Park Service staff discovered that the church...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today in Bogota, Colombia, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez were arrested for obstructing justice by selling sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement information to a narcotics trafficker concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just one day following the federal government’s settlement with BP for 14 criminal charges relating to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, another explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico claimed two lives today, with two more missing and several injured. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today expressed sympathy for the deceased, missing and wounded workers, and renewed his call for increased safety measures for offshore drilling.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today commended the House of Representatives’ passage of the bill to repeal the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment and establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia. By establishing PNTR, American businesses will be able...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: CLEVELAND - A federal jury convicted three people of crimes related to a multi-state drug conspiracy that sent millions of dollars’ worth of highly addictive prescription painkillers to all 50 states, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager today announced payments to 189 companies to support the production and expansion of advanced biofuels.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager today announced a plan to spur the development of rural broadband networks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado State Office announced it will offer 198 parcels covering 114,996 acres for the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled at 9 a.m., Feb. 14, 2013, at the Denver Marriott West Hotel, 1717 Denver West Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401.The parcels...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called on members of Congress to build on today’s White House summit and make progress toward an agreement on the year-end fiscal issues. From Chairman Baucus...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Late yesterday, HHS announced states would have one more month to decide how and whether to implement Obamacare’s health exchanges. This last-minute reprieve came on the eve of the original decision deadline, an arbitrary cutoff date that states were struggling to meet because they lack...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are seeking further information regarding the costs and benefits of EPA’s proposed stringent new standards for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5). Full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Late yesterday, HHS announced states would have one more month to decide how and whether to implement Obamacare’s health exchanges. This last-minute reprieve came on the eve of the original decision deadline, an arbitrary cutoff date that states were struggling to meet because they lack...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are seeking further information regarding the costs and benefits of EPA’s proposed stringent new standards for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5). Full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in support of the The Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal Act of 2012...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are seeking further information regarding the costs and benefits of EPA’s proposed stringent new standards for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5). Full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Late yesterday, HHS announced states would have one more month to decide how and whether to implement Obamacare’s health exchanges. This last-minute reprieve came on the eve of the original decision deadline, an arbitrary cutoff date that states were struggling to meet because they lack...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The general public is invited to join researchers and resource managers at a one-day research conference focusing on Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The conference, "Linking Research to Management at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in a Rapidly Changing Environment," will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 28, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in the Berglund Auditorium at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2012
News Release: While most of Fire Island National Seashore's island-based facilities are closed at this time of the year, those that are usually open year-round were closed due to the impacts of Hurricane Sandy. The Fire Island Lighthouse remains closed, but the Wilderness Visitor Center is now open on weekends, and there is limited pedestrian access to the beach at this site.
