News from November 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 30, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s proposal to list the Lesser Prairie Chicken as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today the Interior Department announced the first-ever competitive lease sales for renewable energy development in federal waters offshore. The lease sales, to be held next year, will offer some of the nation’s best offshore wind resources in one area identified off the coast of Virginia and another area off of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: The National Park Service (NPS) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, Dec. 12, on proposed changes to sport hunting regulations for Denali National Preserve. The proposed changes would prohibit taking brown bears over bait stations, using artificial light to take black bears at dens, taking black bear cubs and sows with cubs, and would shorten the season for hunting wolves and coyotes.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Federal Financial Management Subcommittee (FFM) Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., and FFM Ranking Member Scott Brown, R-Mass., co-sponsored this amendment to continue funding for the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG), Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grant (SAFER) and USFA.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract for the Electronic Drawing Repository and Automated Workflow Solution, eDRAWS, to BlueCielo ECM Solutions, Inc., of Atlanta that is valued up to $35 million and will be available to all nine Interior...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: Dear Secretary Blank and Ambassador Kirk...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is initiating the process for those entities interested in participating in the 2013 Basin Studies through the WaterSMART Program. To participate in the selection process, interested non-Federal entities should submit a short letter of interest to its respective regional office by Jan. 9, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: Douglas Center Open House at National Lakeshore.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, applauded the Senate’s unanimous approval of S. 2170, the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012. Cummings introduced companion legislation in the House, H.R. 4152, which has bipartisan...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to follow up on prior requests that the agency make certain information relating to rulemaking activities publicly available. In an effort to improve transparency for taxpayers, committee...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to follow up on prior requests that the agency make certain information relating to rulemaking activities publicly available. In an effort to improve transparency for taxpayers, committee...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius concerning the Department’s role in the Interagency Working Group to Support Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources. The Agency...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to follow up on prior requests that the agency make certain information relating to rulemaking activities publicly available. In an effort to improve transparency for taxpayers, committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: A day after the President proposed a $2 trillion tax increase without any meaningful spending cuts as a solution to America’s debt crisis, the President is off to Pennsylvania on a PR tour saying he wants to promote manufacturing in America. But if President Obama is serious then why is it that he wants...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) hailed the proposal made today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to take action to protect several coral species under the Endangered Species Act. As NOAA notes in their proposal, the three major threats to coral are either directly or indirectly related to climate change: rising ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, and disease.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced that Beachner Seed Company, a company operating out of St. Paul, Kan., has paid $1,650 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act. The company settled the case in agreement with AMS officials. The company neither admitted nor denied the charges brought against them.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius concerning the Department’s role in the Interagency Working Group to Support Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources. The Agency...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius concerning the Department’s role in the Interagency Working Group to Support Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources. The Agency...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2012
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, through Friends of the Smokies, is one of twenty national parks to be awarded grants as part of the 2012 Park Stewards program. Since 2009, the National Park Foundation's Park Stewards program has made it possible for high school teachers and their students across the country to build a deeper connection and sense of stewardship for their national parks through personal engagement and service learning projects.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 29, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined Netherlands Ambassador to the United States Rudolf Bekink to sign an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation, with an emphasis on cybersecurity research.
