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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee, [on July 30, 2010] released a letter sent to National Incident Commander Thad Allen and documents revealing that the U.S. Coast Guard, tasked with limiting BPs use of toxic …
National Income and Product Accounts – Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2010 (Advance Estimate) Revised Estimates: 2007 through First Quarter 2010: “Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the second quarter …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the beginning of Cataract Awareness Month by announcing a new peer-reviewed report predicting that more than 22 million additional cataract cases will be avoided for Americans born between 1985 and 2100 due to the Montreal Protocol. The environmental treaty, signed by 196 countries, was designed to reduce …
Monthly Energy Review July 30, 2010: “EIA’s primary report of recent energy statistics: total energy production, consumption, and trade; energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and international petroleum; carbon dioxide emissions; and data unit conversions. Preliminary MER data show that U.S. biofuels consumption in the transportation sector …
Defense Infrastructure: Army’s Privatized Lodging Program Could Benefit from More Effective Planning, GAO-10-771, July 30, 2010 Management Report: Improvements Needed in Controls over the Preparation of the U.S. Consolidated Financial Statements, GAO-10-757, July 30, 2010 Mandate on Department of Housing and Urban Development’s, Alternative Credit Pilot Program, GAO-10-876R, July 30, 2010 Medicare Payments to Federally …
Aviation Safety: Improved Planning Could Help FAA Address Challenges Related to Winter Weather Operations, GAO-10-678, July 29, 2010 Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Develop Performance Criteria to Gauge Impact of Reform Act Changes and Address Workforce Issues, GAO-10-774, July 29, 2010 Foreign Language Capabilities: Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, and State Could Better Assess Their …
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged brothers Samuel E. Wyly and Charles J. Wyly, Jr. of Dallas with violating federal securities laws governing ownership and trading of securities by corporate insiders. The Wyly brothers reaped more than $550 million in undisclosed gains while sitting on corporate boards by trading stock in those …
[Federal Register: July 28, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 144)] [Notices][Page 44216-44223]: “The Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force is conducting a comprehensive review of the nexus between cybersecurity challenges in the commercial sector and innovation in the Internet economy. The Department seeks comments from all stakeholders, including the commercial, academic and civil society sectors, …
“The Digital Counties Survey is conducted in partnership with the National Association of Counties (NACo) annually in the spring: March – April. All U.S. counties are invited to participate (consolidated county-city jurisdictions are invited to participate in the Digital Cities Survey in the summer). The awards are presented during NACO’s annual conference each July.” The …
Exclusive – Google, CIA Invest in Future of Web Monitoring, By Noah Shachtman, July 28, 2010: “The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it …
Quarterly ACSI E-Government Satisfaction Index Shows Relationship Between High Satisfaction and Government Efficiency, July 28, 2009 “The American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Government Satisfaction Index [Satisfaction Q2 2009] scores 73.6 for the second quarter, halting a drop in the first quarter that came after three consecutive quarterly gains. However, the Index didnt manage a rebound, …
Earth has been growing warmer for more than fifty years, July 28, 2010 “The 2009 State of the Climate report released today draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable. More than 300 scientists from 160 research groups …
