Day archives: May 6th, 2010

President's Cancer Panel Releases Landmark Report

National Cancer Institute, Annual Report for 2008-2009, President’s Cancer Panel – Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, What We Can Do Now “The Panel was particularly concerned to find that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated. With nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, many of which are used …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Financial Markets Regulation, Food Safety, Unemployment Insurance Trust Funds

Defense Acquisitions: Strong Leadership Is Key to Planning and Executing Stable Weapon Programs, GAO-10-522, May 06, 2010 Financial Markets Regulation: Financial Crisis Highlights Need to Improve Oversight of Leverage at Financial Institutions and across System, GAO-10-555T, May 06, 2010 Food Safety: FDA Could Strengthen Oversight of Imported Food by Improving Enforcement and Seeking Additional Authorities, …

Subjects: Government Documents

NOAA – Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico – Updated Daily

Follow up to IncidentNews website provides publicly available information related to oil and hazardous material spills, see NOAA’s Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico, updated daily with data including Current Trajectory Maps and forecasts. “Situation: Wednesday 05 May: “Weather today continued to allow both NOAA overflights and dispersant operations. Overflight observation flights were concentrated around …

Subjects: E-Government

Case Study: How Open Data Saved Canada $3.2 Billion

Case Study: How Open data saved Canada $3.2 Billion – 14 April 2010 | David Eaves [via Susannah Fox, Pew Internet] “…government data – information that should be made more accessible and open in an unfettered and machine readable format – helped reveal one of the largest tax evasion scandals in the country’s history. But …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management

ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law

ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, Updated 8 March 2010, by Marci Hoffman “Introduction: This chapter will attempt to provide a guide to the ever expanding area of international human rights law. The focus will be on the electronic sources available for this topic, regardless of the format. This chapter will include general …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Legal Research