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FTC Working Paper – Retail Gasoline Pricing: What Do We Know?

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics, Working Paper No. 290, Retail Gasoline Pricing: What Do We Know? by Daniel Hosken, Robert McMillan, Christopher Taylor, May 2007. “We examine retail gasoline station pricing using three years of weekly prices for 272 stations in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. We report a number of new empirical …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New Reports from Energy Information Administration on Natural Gas Reserves, Natural Gas Pipelines

World Proved Natural Gas Reserves, January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2007 Estimates (06/01/2007): “A table of World Proved Natural Gas Reserves, January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2007 Estimates is now available. EIA estimates are used for the United States for January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2006. All other estimates are from the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

America’s Diverse Family Farms, 2007 Edition

America’s Diverse Family Farms, 2007 Edition, by Robert A. Hoppe, David E. Banker, Penni Korb, Erik O’Donoghue, and James MacDonald -Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-26) 12 pages, June 2007. “American farms encompass a wide range of sizes, ownership structures, and business types, but most farms are still family farms. Family farms account for 98 percent …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

EPA OIG Releases Annual Superfund Report and Financial Statements for Pesticide Reg. Fund

2007-1-00071 Fiscal Year 2006 and 2005 Financial Statements for the Pesticide Registration Fund [Report PDF – 42 pages] [At a Glance PDF] May 30, 2007 2007-1-00070 Fiscal Year 2006 and 2005 Financial Statements for the Pesticides Reregistration and Expedited Processing Fund [Report PDF – 46 pages] [At a Glance PDF] May 30, 2007 EPA-350-R-07-001 Annual …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CT Attorney General Announces Nationwide Settlement With Choicepoint For Security Breach

Press release, May 31, 2007: Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, with attorneys general from 43 other states, announced a settlement today with ChoicePoint for allegedly failing to adequately protect consumers’ personally identifiable information, resulting in a massive security breach. The Atlanta-based ChoicePoint, which collects and maintains personally identifiable information on consumers, provides identification and credential verification …

Subjects: Cybercrime, ID Theft, Privacy

FTC Testifies on Government Agencies’ Collection and Use of Personal Information and Identity Theft

Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Public Entities, Personal Information, and Identity Theft, Presented by Betsy Broder, Assistant Director, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Before the Ohio Privacy and Public Records Access Study Committee of the Ohio Senate and House of Representatives, May 31, 2007. President’s Identity Theft …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, ID Theft

Compendium of Unimplemented HHS Office of Inspector General Recommendations

Compendium of Unimplemented Office of Inspector General Recommendations, May 2007 (116 pages, PDF)- “The “Compendium of Unimplemented Office of Inspector General Recommendations” combines the “Red Book” (unimplemented monetary recommendations) and the “Orange Book” (unimplemented nonmonetary recommendations) into one publication. The “Red Book” focused on significant Office of Inspector General (OIG) cost-saving recommendations that had not …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents