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Interior Department Releases Alternative Energy Environmental Impact Statement and Announces Offshore Alternative Energy Initiative

Press release: “The Secretary of the Interior today released the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FPEIS) for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Alternative Energy and Alternate Use (AEAU) Program and announced an interim policy for authorization of the installation of offshore data collection and technology testing facilities in federal waters.” OCS Alternative Energy and Alternate …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Foreign Policy: Globalization Index 2007

“For the seventh year, FOREIGN POLICY partners with A.T. Kearney to measure countries on their economic, personal, technological, and political integration. Find out whos climbing the ranks, and whos sliding down.” The Globalization Index 2007 Download the Raw Index Data

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet

Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking

“The Internet is becoming increasingly embedded in everyday life. Drawing on an expanding array of intelligent web services and applications, a growing number of people are creating, distributing and exploiting user-created content (UCC) and being part of the wider participative web. This study describes the rapid growth of UCC and its increasing role in worldwide …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Wiki

Conyers Offers White House Last Chance to Comply with Committee Subpoenas, Files Contempt Report

Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) offered White House Counsel Fred Fielding yet another opportunity to negotiate terms and agree on compliance with the committee’s subpoenas issued to Joshua Bolten, for documents, and Harriet Miers, for documents and testimony. The two were subpoenaed earlier this year as part of the …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change

The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change, Kurt M. Campbell, Jay Gulledge, J.R. McNeill, John Podesta, Peter Ogden, leon Fuerth, R. James Woolsey, Alexander T.J. lennon, Julianne Smith, Richard Weitz, and Derek Mix, November 2007 “Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

New GAO Reports: Border Security, School Mental Health, Securing U.S. Nuclear Material

Border Security: Despite Progress, Weaknesses in Traveler Inspections Exist at Our Nation’s Ports of Entry, GAO-08-219, November 5, 2007 School Mental Health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Factors Affecting Service Provision, GAO-08-19R, October 5, 2007 Securing U.S. Nuclear Material: DOE Has Made Little Progress Consolidating and Disposing of Special …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DOT OIG Audit of Security and Controls Over the National Driver Register

Audit of Security and Controls Over the National Driver Register, October 29, 2007, Project ID: FI-2008-003 (32 pages, PDF) “Summary: On October 29, we issued a final report on the audit of the National Driver Register (NDR) system administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). NDR is a central register that enables state …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

U.S. Natural Gas Proved Reserves Reach 30 Year High in 2006

Press release: “U.S. natural gas proved reserves increased 3 percent in 2006, rising to over 211 trillion cubic feet, the highest level since 1976 according to estimates released today by the Energy Information Administration. Additions to reserves replaced 136 percent of the dry natural gas produced in 2006. This was the eighth year in a …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

World Privacy Forum: State Security Freeze Laws and General Information

“A credit freeze (sometimes called a security freeze) lets you stop the disclosure of your credit report by a credit bureau. As of November 1, 2007, the three credit bureaus are allowing all consumers nationwide to set a security freeze. Some states have specific security freeze laws; a list of states with security freeze laws …

Subjects: Privacy

DHS OIG Audits

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Management of State Homeland Security Grants Awarded During Fiscal Years 2002 through 2004, OIG-08-03 (PDF, 44 pages) – New 11/05/2007 Management Letter for the FY 2006 FLETC Balance Sheet, OIG-08-04 (PDF, 16 pages) – New 11/05/2007 Progress Has Been Made But More Work Remains in Meeting Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

EPA Fuel Economy Rankings for 2008 Models

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released new rankings on fuel economy for 2008 models. Rankings include: Top ten leaders in fuel economy Ten models with the lowest overall fuel economy In each class, models with the best fuel economy In each class, models with the lowest fuel economy.

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book on Declassified Pre-Iraq War Documents

“CBS News 60 Minutes exposure last night of the Iraqi agent known as CURVEBALL has put a major aspect of the Bush administrations case for war against Iraq back under the spotlight. Rafid Ahmed Alwans charges that Iraq possessed stockpiles of biological weapons and the mobile plants to produce them formed a critical part of …

Subjects: Government Documents

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