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Press release: “Finding energy efficient schools, supermarkets, offices, and other facilities throughout the country has become even easier for Americans interested in being green. Now they can find the Energy Star not only where they live but where they work, shop, play and learn. The number of commercial buildings and manufacturing plants to earn the …
Head Start: A More Comprehensive Risk Management Strategy and Data Improvements Could Further Strengthen Program Oversight, GAO-08-221, February 12, 2008 Nuclear Security: Action May Be Needed to Reassess the Security of NRC-Licensed Research Reactors, GAO-08-403, January 31, 2008 Wildland Fire Management: Federal Agencies Lack Key Long- and Short-Term Management Strategies for Using Program Funds Effectively, …
USDA Agricultural Projections to 2017 (110 pages,PDF) February 2008: “This report provides longrun (10-year) projections for the agricultural sector through 2017. Projections cover agricultural commodities, agricultural trade, and aggregate indicators of the sector, such as farm income and food prices.”
Press release: “Leading investors today published disclosure guidelines for the electric utilities sector which will make it easier for investors to assess and compare the risks and opportunities posed by climate change and climate policy to individual companies. The Global Climate Disclosure Framework for Electric Utilities captures those climate change issues that are relevant specifically …
EPA press release: “The nation’s leading cell phone makers, service providers, and retailers have teamed up with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the States to answer the call for easy cell phone recycling in New England. As part of EPA’s Plug-In to eCycling program, partners supporting the cell phone recycling campaign include AT&T Wireless, …
FSF Working Group on Market and Institutional Resilience Interim Report to the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, February 5, 2008: ” Since the Working Groups preliminary report in October, we have continued to sharpen our analysis of the causes of recent events and the appropriate responses to them. This interim report discusses the …
Countering Insurgency in the Muslim World – Rethinking U.S. Priorities and Capabilities, by: David C. Gompert, John Gordon, IV, Adam Grissom, David R. Frelinger, Seth G. Jones, Martin C. Libicki, Edward O’Connell, Brooke K. Stearns, Robert E. Hunter. “This research brief summarizes a RAND report that analyzes insurgencies such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq …
DHS press releases, February 1, 2008: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has begun collecting additional fingerprints from international visitors arriving at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (O’Hare), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (Hartsfield), and George Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport (Bush Intercontinental). The change is part of the department’s upgrade from two- …
February 07, 2008 – Serbia: Current Issues and U.S. Policy February 01, 2008 – The DHS Directorate of Science and Technology: Key Issues for Congress February 01, 2008 – Tax Rebate Refundability: Effects and Issues February 01, 2008 – The Egypt-Gaza Border and its Effect on Israeli-Egyptian Relations February 01, 2008 – The Recovery Rebates …
Creative Commons and Public.Resource.Org announced [February 11, 2008] that the first revision of a substantial corpus of U.S. federal case law is available for download by developers. The files are all clearly marked with the new Creative Commons CCØ label, indicating that the contents are Works of the United States Government and are thus free …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) press release: “The Internal Revenue Service is flouting three court orders requiring it to regularly provide a nationally-recognized researcher with the statistical data she needs for her studies, according to a court action brought today by the researcher. The new motion was filed by Susan B. Long, a professor at …
Pew Hispanic Center: “If current trends continue, immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their descendants will account for 82% of the population growth in the United States during this period, according to new projections from the Pew Research Center. The nation’s racial and ethnic mix will change markedly by mid-century, the projections show, with …
