WASHINGTON-U.S. Sen. Mark Begich today issued the following statement after language transferring air permitting authority for outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and gas development off Alaska’s Arctic coast from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the 2012 Department of the Interior spending bill.
WASHINGTON – A former captain in the U.S. Army National Guard was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Chicago to 15 months in prison for receiving bribes from military contractors in return for the award of Department of Defense (DOD) contracts during his deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer […]
WASHINGTON D.C.-Alaskan Congressman Don Young spoke on the House floor today in favor ofH.R. 822, the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011. This legislation would allow Americans who have valid state-issued concealed firearm permits or licenses to carry a concealed firearm in any other state that also allows concealed carry. Currently, there is a bureaucratic […]
17 November 2011 –A Hungarian laboratory is the most likely source of the outbreak of a radioactive particle recently detected in the atmosphere above parts of Europe, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported today.