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Electric Power Monthly July 2010 data Oct 14, 2010: “The latest EPM issue (October 2010) is now available on EIA’s Electricity page. Data are for July 2010, during which net generation in the United States grew by 10.2 percent compared to July 2009. The average retail price of electricity for July 2010 was 10.50 …
News release: “On the heels of the recent expiration of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) on October 3, the U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the release of a Two-year Retrospective report on TARP. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the steps that Treasury took under TARP to contain a growing financial …
News release: “As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) RE-Powering Americas Land initiative, the agency has developed a two-year draft management plan to advance the development of renewable energy on potentially contaminated land and mining sites. The draft plan describes activities EPA can take to build upon the progress that the initiative has …
News release: “The nation’s largest airlines reported only one flight in August with a tarmac delay of more than three hours, compared to 66 flights in August 2009, with no change in the rate of canceled flights, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released [October 12, 2010] by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). …
EFF: “As noted in our first post, EFF recently received new documents via our FOIA lawsuit on social network surveillance, filed with the help of UC Berkeleys Samuelson Clinic, that reveal two ways the government has been tracking people online: Citizenship and Immigrations surveillance of social networks to investigate citizenship petitions and the DHSs use …
Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Reassess Joint Cruise Missile Costs before Starting New Production Phase, GAO-11-112, October 13, 2010 Intellectual Property: Agencies Progress in Implementing Recent Legislation, but Enhancements Could Improve Future Plans, GAO-11-39, October 13, 2010 Military Personnel: Sustained Leadership and Oversight Needed to Improve DOD’s Prevention and Treatment of Domestic Abuse, GAO-10-923, September …
News release: “The Mortgage Foreclosure Multistate Group, comprised of state attorneys general in all 50 states, and state banking and mortgage regulators in more than three dozen states, will explore whether individual mortgage servicers have improperly submitted documents in support of foreclosures. Specifically, the group will investigate whether companies misrepresented on affidavits and other documents …
CDC: Arias E. United States life tables by Hispanic origin. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 2(152). October 2010 “Life expectancy at birth for the total population in 2006 was 77.7 years; 80.6 years for the Hispanic population, 78.1 years for the non-Hispanic white population, and 72.9 years for the non-Hispanic black population. …
News release: “If European policymakers, big financial institutions and social partners cannot agree on the full extent of reform, then Europe’s financial services sector runs the risk of being plunged back into the unsustainable situation of chasing short-term profit with high risks, Eurofound’s European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC) warns in a new report. The …
CBO – Potential Costs of Veteran’s Health Car, October 2010 “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides health care at little or no charge to more than 5 million veterans annually. Medical services are provided through the inpatient and outpatient facilities run by the Veterans Health Administration. Those services include routine health assessments, readjustment counseling, …
“Beyond the usual findings and recommendations for improving federal operations, a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the first to offer a web-based E-Report format to help users navigate content more easily… The new pilot format, which is part of a report on geostationary environmental satellites (GAO-10-799), allows users to quickly …
2010 Summary of Deposits data is now available: “The Summary of Deposits (SOD) contains deposit data for branches and offices of all FDIC-insured institutions. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) collects deposit balances for commercial and savings banks as of June 30 of each year, and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) collects the same …
