News from October 2012
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: The 1st annual Peak to Peak hike will be held on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: Washington DC - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement after the District of Columbia district court issued a decision vacating the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) position limits rule. Rep. Markey has been...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: A look back at 30 years of efforts by the Mae Fah Luang Foundation under Royal Patronage and the Drug Enforcement Administration to end opium production and trafficking in this once highly volatile region. October 4, 2012, 2:00 p.m. EST. DEA Museum Auditorium. 700 Army Navy Drive. (please...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: Acting Superintendent Darrell Echols announced that Columbus Day, Monday, October 8, 2012 is the last day for climbing the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse this season. The lighthouse will reopen for the 2013 season on Friday, April 19, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: New York, NY - Tickets to visit the crown of the Statue of Liberty are now available online, David Luchsinger, superintendent of Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, announced today. The crown will reopen on Oct. 28, following a year of renovations.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to an announcement that the U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union have agreed to offer employees retirement incentives.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: On Sept. 15, 2012 the Tri-Freaks held their ninth annual Grand Columbian Triathlon in the Grand Coulee area.This is the second year that the swim portion was held in Spring Canyon in Lake Roosevelt.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: A press conference to provide information on Columbus Day Weekend in Biscayne National Park will be held at 10:00 am on Thursday, October 4 at the park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center, located 9 miles east of Homestead at 9700 SW 328 Street. Representatives from the National Park Service and partner agencies...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2012.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding the expiration of the 2008 Farm Bill and House Republican leadership’s refusal to bring up the 2012 Farm Bill for consideration - which passed both the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: FRESNO, - Calif. Elgeron Graves, 42, the owner of California Patient Network, a now defunct marijuana storefront in Fresno, was sentenced today to one year in prison for conspiring to cultivate, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: VALLEY FORGE, PA - Valley Forge National Historical Park will conduct the third year of the lethal reduction phase of the White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (plan) beginning in November 2012 and extending through March 2013. The plan addresses the browsing of tree and shrub...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: During a tour of Big Bend National Park this weekend, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science Anne Castle highlighted the Big Bend Conservation Cooperative's efforts to conserve the Rio Grande watershed as a model of the kind of partnership that is the foundation of President Obama's America's Great Outdoors Rivers Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: National Park Service News Release. - OCTOBER 1, 2012. ED CUMMINS, CHIEF RANGER, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 X227. Living History Program at Montezuma Castle Commemorates Birthday of Theodore Roosevelt. Troop 1A of the Arizona Rough Riders Historical Association will be joining staff and visitors at Montezuma...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: FRESNO, - Calif.Two of nine defendants charged in connection with a large marijuana cultivation operation in Alpaugh, Calif., pleaded guilty today to participating in a drug conspiracy, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: Dear Mr. Sproul: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been investigating allegations of voter registration fraud for several years. I am writing to request documents and transcribed interviews with you and company officials relating to allegations of widespread irregularities in...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: Life can seem haphazard and chaotic, but true randomness is fundamentally mysterious, elusive, and remarkably difficult to observe. If it can be realized and put to use, it offers enormous benefits to a digital society in which strings of nominally random numbers are used hundreds of billions of times every day to encrypt information in virtually every secure network transaction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kevin L. Lane, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin; announced...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: Ensuring the monarch butterfly's survival by saving its milkweed habitat could result from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies initially intended to improve detection of boll weevils with pheromone traps.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following today’s decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to reject an appeal of the Roadless Rule that protects 50 million acres of America’s forests, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the Ranking Democratic Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, released the following statement...
