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“Total Federal energy-specific subsidies and support to all forms of energy are estimated to have reached $16.6 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2007, according to Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy Markets 2007, released April 9, 2008 by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). This amount is more than double the level, in real terms …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)… adopted a First Report and Order (Order) that will support the ability of the nations wireless carriers to transmit timely and accurate alerts, warnings and critical information to the cell phones and other mobile devices of consumers during disasters or other emergencies. In compliance with the Warning, Alert …
Artifact Management Reports for Each National Park, by Michael Ravnitzky “Each year, the National Park Service creates a management report for each National Park that holds artifacts. These may include cultural and historical artifacts, such as a Civil War gun or an ancient Native American boulder inscription. There are also natural artifacts such as a …
Legally eHealth: Putting eHealth in its European Legal Context. Legal and regulatory aspects of eHealth Study report March 2008. “The Legally eHealth Report…seeks to examine some keys of the legal questions raised by the adoption of eHealth tools in healthcare. It looks at how EU legislation on data protection, product and services liability, and trade …
EPA Launches the Environmental Indicators Gateway: “This gateway features information on EPA’s environmental indicator projects. These projects provide information on environmental conditions and trends over a range of geographic scales and time periods. The Gateway provides summaries of the indicator projects and links to the related reports and Web sites developed by each project. You …
Latest Findings on National Air Quality – Status and Trends Through 2006. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Assessment Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, EPA-454/R-07-007, January 2008. “The “Air Trends Online” project provides information on air pollution trends in the United States. The effort was launched in 1972 …
News release: “Global EntryTM will be available for U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents who are frequent international travelers, provided they have not been found guilty of a criminal offense, charged with a customs or immigration offense, or declared inadmissible to the U.S. under immigration legislation. Biometric fingerprint technology will be used to verify the …
News release: “The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) [April 10, 2008] issued China: Description of Selected Government Practices and Policies Affecting Decision Making in the Economy [270 pages, PDF]. The ITC, an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding federal agency, prepared the report at the request of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means. As …
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Report No. D-2008-048 Procuring Noncompetitive Spare Parts Through an Exclusive Distributor, February 6, 2008.
Media Ownership: Economic Factors Influence the Number of Media Outlets in Local Markets, While Ownership by Minorities and Women Appears Limited and Is Difficult to Assess, GAO-08-383, March 12, 2008 Millennium Challenge Corporation: Analysis of Compact Development and Future Obligations and Current Disbursements of Compact Assistance, GAO-08-577R, April 11, 2008 Defense Acquisitions: 2009 Review of …
OIG-08-38 – Aillison of the M/V COSCO BUSAN with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, April 2008 (PDF, 56 pages): “Response to an oil spill is a multifaceted and multilayered effort requiring both an autonomous and cooperative response on the part of each stakeholder. This mishap highlighted the need for federal, state, and local agencies to …
