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Follow up to Mine Safety and Health Administration – Upper Big Branch Mine-South Single Source Page, this news release: “The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that, from April through August, the agency conducted “impact inspections” at 111 coal and metal/nonmetal mines throughout the country designated by the agency as …
News release: The presidents of six leading research universities and two higher-education associations joined Vice President Joe Biden and White House science advisor Dr. John Holdren to discuss the scientific research and related activities that have been made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Participating in the event held in the Roosevelt …
Financial News for Independent Energy Companies, Second Quarter 2010 Sep 21, 2010 – “reviews the recent financial performance of independent U.S. energy companies, and now includes ethanol producers. The latest data presented are for April through June 2010. Independent energy companies overall reported a large increase in income in the second quarter of 2010 …
State Personal Income: Second Quarter 2010, news release and tables: “State personal income growth averaged 1.0 percent in the second quarter of 2010 up slightly from 0.9 percent in the first quarter, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Growth rates ranged from 2.0 percent in North Dakota to 0.3 …
Safe Disposal of Unused Medication: “On September 25, 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, will coordinate a collaborative effort with state and local law enforcement agencies to remove potentially dangerous controlled substances from our nations medicine cabinets. Collection activities will take place from 10:00 a.m. through 2:00 p.m. at sites established throughout …
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Efforts to Align Programs with Partner Countries’ HIV/AIDS Strategies and Promote Partner Country Ownership, GAO-10-836, September 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Opportunities to Improve Management and Strengthen Accountability over States’ and Localities’ Uses of Funds, GAO-10-999, September 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Survey of State Housing Finance Agencies’ Use of the …
Monthly Flash Estimate Sep 20, 2010: “The September issue of the Monthly Flash Estimate (MFE) of Electric Power Data is available on EIA’s Electricity page. This issue provides early highlights of July 2010 electricity data. In July 2010, total electric power generation in the United States increased 9.2 percent compared to July 2009. Over …
Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity, Travis A. Smith, Biing-Hwan Lin, Rosanna Mentzer Morrison, September 2010 “Obesity among the U.S. population has increased markedly over the past three decades. Two-thirds of U.S. adults are now either overweight or obese, and growing numbers of children are overweight as well. Studies by nutritionists and epidemiologists suggest …
Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security: Vol. 2, Privacy and the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Cyber Security Working Group, August 2010 “The Smart Grid brings with it many new data collection, communication, and information sharing capabilities related to energy usage, and these technologies in turn introduce concerns about privacy. Privacy relates …
News release: “As the Senate prepares to consider small business jobs legislation this week, a new report by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) shows that lending to small businesses has declined in 2010, small business hiring remains flat and the smallest firms continue to reduce hiring…The report, entitled Small Business Employment: Bank Lending …
Rural America at a Glance, 2010 Edition, Lorin Kusmin and Thomas Hertz, editors. Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-68) 6 pp, September 2010 “Rural America At A Glance, 2010 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2010 …
State Nuclear Profiles Sep 15, 2010: “The newly-formatted State Nuclear Profiles contains 2008 final data on nuclear generation and capacity, significant facts about the local nuclear industry, nuclear plant construction costs, dates of commercial reactor operation and license expiration, and type of cooling system. Tables also compare nuclear and other output and capacity.”
