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Estimates Provide Detailed Look at Every Community Nationwide: “The U.S. Census Bureau today released findings from the American Community Survey the most relied-on source for detailed, up-to-date socio-economic statistics covering every community in the nation every year for the combined years from 2006 to 2010. Consisting of about 11 billion individual estimates and …
News release: “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual enforcement and compliance results. EPAs enforcement and compliance program enforces environmental laws that protect our nations air, land and water by taking action to cut illegal pollution and protect peoples health and communities. In fiscal year Fiscal Year 2011, EPA enforcement actions led …
Innovation and research strategy for growth, Department for Business Innovation and Skills, December 8, 2011 “Command Paper 8239. Sets out the Governments plans to boost economic growth through investment in research and innovation across the UK. Explains how the Government will invest in critical areas that only government can fund and support innovation across the …
Defense Contract Audits: Actions Needed to Improve DCAA’s Access to and Use of Defense Company Internal Audit Reports, GAO-12-88, Dec 8, 2011 Highway Emergency Relief: Strengthened Oversight of Project Eligibility Decisions Needed, GAO-12-45, Nov 8, 2011 Transportation Security: Actions Needed to Address Limitations in TSA’s Transportation Worker Security Threat Assessments and Growing Workload, GAO-12-60, Dec …
News release: “The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force today released its final strategy for long term ecosystem restoration for the Gulf Coast, following extensive feedback from citizens throughout the region…The strategy is the first restoration blueprint ever developed for the Gulf to include input from states, tribes, federal agencies, local governments and thousands of …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a draft analysis of data from its Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation. At the request of Pavillion residents, EPA began investigating water quality concerns in private drinking water wells three years ago. Since that time, in conjunction with the state of Wyoming, the local community, …
The Future of the Electric Grid: “For well over a century, electricity has made vital contributions to the growth of the U.S. economy and the quality of American life. The U.S. electric grid is a remarkable achievement, linking electric generation units reliably and efficiently to millions of residential, commercial, and industrial users of electricity through …
News release: “The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today issued a second set of regulatory violations arising from operations conducted in connection with the Macondo well. The violations were issued as Incidents of Non-Compliance (INC). A total of five INCs were issued by faxed letter to BP; four of the INCs were violations …
Fraud Detection Systems: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Needs to Expand Efforts to Support Program Integrity Initiatives, GAO-12-292T, Dec 7, 2011 Homeland Defense and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Additional Steps Could Enhance the Effectiveness of the National Guard’s Life-Saving Response Forces, GAO-12-114, Dec 7, 2011 IT Dashboard: Accuracy Has Improved, and Additional Efforts Are …
“A comprehensive new study that profiles 265 consistently profitable Fortune 500 companies finds that 68 of them paid no state corporate income tax in at least one of the last three years and 20 of them averaged a tax rate of zero or less during the 2008-2010 period. These are among the findings in Corporate …
News release: “November and the September-November autumn season were warmer than average across the contiguous U.S., according to scientists at NOAAs National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, N.C. Precipitation totals across the country were also above average during November, but near the long-term average for the autumn season. The average U.S. temperature in November …
“This report summarizes the first three months of the CFPBs Consumer Response complaint system and its work on credit card complaints.1 Going forward, the Bureau plans to provide similar credit card complaint data reports as part of a formal credit card complaint data disclosure policy. The Bureau is publishing a proposal for that data disclosure …
