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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this report, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2009: Interim Report of 2008 Highlights, Minerals Management Service (MMS) Report (2009-016) – Published by U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, New Orleans, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, May 2009 News release: 2010 Offshore Industry Safety Awards …
“National Womens Health Week is a weeklong health observance coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Womens Health (OWH). National Womens Health Week empowers women to make their health a top priority. With the theme Its Your Time, the nationwide initiative encourages women to take simple steps for a longer, …
CBO Monthly Budget Review – May 2010. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for March and the Daily Treasury Statements for April 2010. “In the first seven months of fiscal year 2010, the federal government incurred a budget deficit of about $800 billion, the same as the shortfall at the same point in 2009, CBO …
EPIC: “The Senate unanimously passed the Faster FOIA Act of 2010, introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John Cornyn (R-TX), that will establish a 16-member commission to determine methods for reducing delays in processing FOIA requests. Government reports reveal substantial delays in disclosing records subject to the open government law. The legislation seeks to …
The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework, Julius Genachowski. Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, May 6, 2010 “This statement describes a framework to support policies that advance our global competitiveness and preserve the Internet as a powerful platform for innovation, free speech, and job creation. I remain open to all ideas on the best approach …
Follow up to Postal Service Proposes to Eliminate Saturday Service, news that the Postal Regulatory Commission has issued a Request for Proposal for a study on measuring the social benefits of the mail. In addition, there is a scoping study, A Framework for Considering the Social Value of Postal Services Final Report, February 2, 2010 …
Congressional Budget Office: How Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Affect Employment, May 5, 2010 Economic and Budget Issue Brief “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has analyzed the research on the effects that policies to reduce greenhouse gases would have on employment and concluded that total employment during the next few decades would be …
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 290,000 in April, the unemployment rate edged up to 9.9 percent, and the labor force increased sharply, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in manufacturing, professional and business services, health care, and leisure and hospitality. Federal government employment also rose, reflecting continued hiring …
National Cancer Institute, Annual Report for 2008-2009, President’s Cancer Panel – Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, What We Can Do Now “The Panel was particularly concerned to find that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated. With nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, many of which are used …
Follow up to IncidentNews website provides publicly available information related to oil and hazardous material spills, see NOAA’s Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico, updated daily with data including Current Trajectory Maps and forecasts. “Situation: Wednesday 05 May: “Weather today continued to allow both NOAA overflights and dispersant operations. Overflight observation flights were concentrated around …
Case Study: How Open data saved Canada $3.2 Billion – 14 April 2010 | David Eaves [via Susannah Fox, Pew Internet] “…government data – information that should be made more accessible and open in an unfettered and machine readable format – helped reveal one of the largest tax evasion scandals in the country’s history. But …
News release: “Two days after the failed Times Square terrorist was arrested, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday heard top New York City officials advocate for barring terrorist suspects from purchasing firearms. At an oversight hearing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly …
