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Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news: Deepwater joint investigation board concludes 5th day in 4th session of hearings. “The Deepwater Horizon joint investigation concluded the fifth day of the fourth session of hearings Friday [August 27, 2010] into the circumstances surrounding the explosion, fire, pollution and sinking of …
News release: “New analysis of industry data released today by the national consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch finds that almost half of all bottled water sold in U.S. retail outlets in PET plastic bottles now comes from municipal tap water supplies. Bottling Our Cities Tap Water shows that between 2000 and 2009 the …
News release: “The national consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch released its 2010 Smart Seafood Guide to direct consumers in making safer, more sustainable seafood decisions. This year, researchers analyzed over 100 types of seafood (60 percent more than in 2009) to create the only guide assessing not only the human health and environmental …
News release: “In efforts to help the nation’s health care industry make the transition to the digital age in an effective and meaningful fashion, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a set of approved procedures for testing information technology systems that work with electronic health records (EHRs). Released in draft form …
Official Google Blog: When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results. Today were making our most significant enhancements to date, giving …
“The THOMAS Share Tool allows you to print THOMAS pages and search results, subscribe to regular updates from THOMAS, and share THOMAS content in a number of ways. You can post THOMAS links on social networking Web sites such as Facebook or Twitter, send links by e-mail, and post links to or embed THOMAS content …
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities – Chart Book: The Legacy of the Great Recession, Updated August 27, 2010 “The United States went through its longest, and by most measures worst economic recession since the Great Depression between December 2007 and the middle of 2009. This chartbook will document the course of the economy following …
News release: “With more than 32,000 islands in its waters, the Great Lakes contain the worlds largest collection of freshwater islands, but these islands are dynamic, undergoing many changes that threaten the islands flora and fauna, including climate change, habitat degradation, invasive species and some natural processes, according to a new report published by scientists …
