News from November 2012
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: Washington -The National Organic Program (NOP) made available today a complete listing of organic operations certified by U.S. Department of Agriculture accredited certifying agents during the 2009 certification year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor announced changes among three senior leadership positions. Lowell Pimley will become the Deputy Commissioner of Operations in Washington, David Murillo has been named Mid-Pacific Regional Director in Sacramento and Don Glaser will move...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: To commemorate Veterans Day, the National Park Service is offering free admission at all park units Saturday, November 10 through Monday, November 12.Entrance fees will be waived at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, giving visitors one last fee-free opportunity to enjoy the park this year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: he Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Wyoming is still accepting nominations for four open positions on its Wyoming Resource Advisory Council, which will advise the BLM on public land issues. Nominations will be accepted through Nov. 19, 2012.Individuals may nominate themselves or others to serve on...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Armando Cardona, 71, of Meriden, Conn., was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 240 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: In an upcoming lecture US Navy senior archeologist and historian Steve Schwartz will tell the story of the remarkable and recent discovery of a long-sought-after cave on San Nicolas Island that was likely the home of the "lone woman.".
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore completed several projects this summer to improve accessibility for handicapped individuals wanting to enjoy the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today on the Congressional Budget Office Report showing the economic impact of the “fiscal cliff.".
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - In response to an inquiry from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released an updated report on the economic impact of the so-called "fiscal cliff" - the combination of expiring tax cuts and automatic federal spending reductions due at year's end.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), joined by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the committee, today announced the first-ever congressionally requested study of the Height Act of 1910, which Issa and Norton requested at a July...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: As expected yesterday with higher temperatures and low humidity, fire activity increased on the Fern Lake Fire in Rocky Mountain National Park. Winds remained too high to complete any bucket drops with the Type 1 helicopter that arrived in the park on Tuesday afternoon. Most of the fire activity was in the bottom of Forest Canyon along the west flank. Today with similar temperatures fire managers are expecting smoke like yesterday.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 152,400 metric tons of corn for delivery to Japan during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statements after AT&T announced plans to invest $14 billion to expand its broadband network...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statements after AT&T announced plans to invest $14 billion to expand its broadband network...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: NEWBURY PARK, Calif. -- The National Park Service will host a volunteer restoration project at Rancho Sierra Vista in Newbury Park on Saturday, December 1 from 9:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statements after AT&T announced plans to invest $14 billion to expand its broadband network...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2012
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park joins all 398 national park units across the country in waiving entrance fees for the upcoming Veteran's Day weekend, Nov. 10-12.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2012
News Release: Andrew J. Watts, a Barbados national, was sentenced in Chicago by U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall to 114 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of just under $1.7 million for devising and executing a stolen identity federal income tax refund fraud scheme, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2012
News Release: Two Pakistani nationals have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on charges alleging that they operated Internet sites that illegally shipped pharmaceuticals from Pakistan and the United Kingdom to customers in the United States. Sheikh Waseem Ul Haq, 39, and Tahir Saeed, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner of a pecan brokerage company in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, was sentenced today to serve 48 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) of approximately $400,000, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny ...
