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“The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) provides leadership in the protection of the rights, welfare, and wellbeing of subjects involved in research conducted or supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). OHRP helps ensure this by providing clarification and guidance, developing educational programs and materials, maintaining regulatory oversight, and providing …
News release: “In the week ending Dec. 25, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 388,000, a decrease of 34,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 422,000. The 4-week moving average was 414,000, a decrease of 12,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 426,500. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate …
The Broadband Technology Opportunities Program – Expanding Broadband Access and Adoption in Communities Across America, Overview of Grant Awards, December 2010 “Broadband infrastructure serves as a key engine of economic development, enabling communities to attract, retain, and expand job-creating businesses and institutions. For example, over broadband connections, small and rural businesses are able to buy …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today established a landmark pollution diet to restore clean water in Chesapeake Bay and the regions streams, creeks and rivers. This pollution diet is driven primarily by jurisdictions plans to put all needed pollution controls in place by 2025 and EPA will hold jurisdictions accountable for results along …
WaPo: “The new rules are designed to help those caught in Medicare’s “doughnut hole,” offer seniors more preventative care, and limit how much of their customers’ money health-insurance companies can keep for overhead and profit. They all go into effect on Saturday, January 1, 2011.” “The ultimate goal of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid …
White House Blog: “In September 2009, the President announced that for the first time in history the White House would routinely release visitor records. Today, the White House releases visitor records that were generated in September 2010. Todays release also includes several visitor records generated prior to September 16, 2009 that were requested …
Federal Computer Week: “The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is seeking ideas for a hybrid performance-based contract, in which a contractor potentially could provide enterprise IT services through a variety of procurement approaches. In a request of information, NIEHS, part of the National Institutes of Health, is asking potential bidders to identify which services …
Follow up to previous postings on WikiLeaks, via WaPo’s Joby Warrick: “Investigations into the attacks concluded that government agencies had failed to share critical information that could have helped uncover the Sept. 11 plot. Because of that lapse, Congress tasked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with pressuring key government agencies – including …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released guidance recommending that schools take steps to reduce potential exposures to PCBs from older fluorescent lighting fixtures. The guidance, part of EPAs ongoing efforts to address potential PCB exposures in schools, is based on evidence that the older ballasts contain PCBs that can leak when …
News release: “A secretarial order issued [December 23, 2010] by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar restores balance and clarity to the management of public lands by establishing common-sense policy for the protection of backcountry areas where Americans recreate, find solitude, and enjoy the wild. Secretarial Order 3310 directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), …
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created several free, publicly-available graphics about radon and a new public service announcement campaign for print, television, and radio at http://www.epa.gov/radon. EPAs newest campaign is Living Healthy & Green. We want Americans to know that a big part of living green is breathing clean, healthy indoor air. One of …
News release: “NOAA unveiled a web archive of the maps, wildlife reports, scientific reports and other previously released public information used by emergency responders, fishermen, mariners and local officials during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The NOAA Deepwater Horizon Library can be accessed via http://www.noaa.gov/deepwaterhorizon.
