News from September 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 21, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement to use presidential powers granted under the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate Chimney Rock as a National Monument.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: We’re here today to look at the Medicare Advantage program. While it is important to get an update on the cost contract and special needs plans in light of their legislative needs, I know my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to use today’s forum to further demagogue the Affordable Care Act.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - On Sept. 29, National Public Lands Day, Jewel Cave National Monument and Wind Cave National Park will host visitors and volunteers for a special day of service and celebration. Additionally, cave tour fees will be waived at both areas for the day.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: Check out the Ruins for Free on National Public Lands Day, September 29.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: The entire Bonita Canyon Campground in Chiricahua National Monument reopened at noon today, Friday, September 21. Portions of the campground have been closed since mid-July due to damage from flash flooding, as well as the potential for additional significant flash flooding during the monsoon. The National...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill for the Middle District of Florida, announces that a federal jury has found Samuel (42,Tampa) guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Fire managers on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park are making plans to burn piles of woody debris over the next 30 days as weather conditions allow.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: Due to the continued hot and dry weather and drying out of forest fuels, the park issued a ban on all open fires in the park's wilderness backcountry, effective as of Sept. 21, 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: Acting Superintendent Darrell Echols announced today that on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, Wright Brothers National Memorial will celebrate National Public Lands Day by offering free admission to park visitors.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Thursday evening, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee took to the House floor to stand up for American jobs and affordable energy as debate kicked off on H.R. 3409, the Stop the War on Coal Act. The legislation is comprised of a series of bills that aim to stop EPA’s...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In the ongoing effort to protect jobs and affordable energy, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.3409, the Stop the War on Coal Act. The legislative package passed the full House with bipartisan support by a vote of 233 to 175. This important jobs and energy package, sponsored...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: Gurdon, Ark. - William Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced that 23 individuals have been charged with drug trafficking offenses as part of Operation Ice Pick, which targeted drug trafficking activity in Gurdon, Arkansas...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: Washington - The National Park Service has awarded the 2011 Appleman-Judd-Lewis Award for excellence in cultural resource stewardship. Included in this year's recipients is Tom Des Jean, Archeologist at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and Obed Wild and Scenic River. The awards were given by National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis in a September 19 ceremony at the Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: GRAND MARAIS, Mich. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore invites you to their annual Au Sable Day, Saturday, September 29.This special event includes free disabled accessible bus shuttle service to the lighthouse from the lower Hurricane River Campground, tours of the light station and fog signal building, and refreshments.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Thursday evening, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee took to the House floor to stand up for American jobs and affordable energy as debate kicked off on H.R. 3409, the Stop the War on Coal Act. The legislation is comprised of a series of bills that aim to stop EPA’s...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service will conduct three prescribed fires this fall at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The largest prescribed fire will be the 328 acre Derby Ditch prescribed fire. This fire is part of the park's long term restoration efforts in Derby Ditch, a wetland area that runs between U.S. 12, Beverly Drive, East State Park Road and Broadway Avenue just south of the Town of Beverly Shores.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: Mark your calendars! Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, is National Public Lands Day! What could that mean for you? Free entrance into Big Bend National Park, a chance to join with others to support public lands, and have a fun-filled weekend!.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today pushed back on claims that the $716 billion in Obamacare Medicare cuts are being used to fund new entitlement programs in the president’s health care law. The president’s statement seems to be at odds with testimony given by his own HHS Secretary before the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee in 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Closing out the most unproductive and anti-environmental Congress in modern history, House Republicans today passed one last giveaway to the fossil fuel industries that are flooding money into GOP campaign coffers and election advertisements. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, decried the bill and Republican attacks on the free market, on clean energy, and on our environment.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2012
News Release: Washington D.C. - On Sunday Sept. 23, the National Park Service (NPS) and its partners will celebrate the Healthy Parks Healthy People Initiative with a dedication of the Kids in Parks TRACK Trail program in Rock Creek Park. A 1.8 mile trail in Rock Creek Park will be officially designated a TRACK...
