Federal Food Safety Oversight: Food Safety Working Group Is a Positive First Step but Governmentwide Planning Is Needed to Address Fragmentation, GAO-11-289, March 18, 2011 List of Selected Federal Programs That Have Similar or Overlapping Objectives, Provide Similar Services, or Are Fragmented Across Government Missions, GAO-11-474R, March 18, 2011 DOD Health Care: Prohibition on Financial …

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News release: “Economic growth will be subdued this year and next in the United Kingdom, but the government must continue its difficult fiscal consolidation and structural reform programmes to return the economy to a sustainable path, according to the OECD’s latest UK Economic Survey. Spending cuts will curb government consumption, investment and household income growth …

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“An international research team involving ETH Zurich has compared the hot summers of 2003 and 2010 in detail for the first time. Last year’s heatwave across Eastern Europe and Russia was unprecedented in every respect: Europe has never experienced so large summer temperature anomalies in the last 500 years. The summer of 2010 was extreme. …

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EIA: “The Haynesville Shale in Louisiana recently surpassed the Barnett Shale in Texas as the Nation’s highest-producing shale gas play, according to reported pipeline flows. Natural gas production from the Louisiana section of the Haynesville overtook the Barnett’s volumes in early to mid-February, even after the Barnett’s recovery from the winter’s well freeze-offs. The Barnett …

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News release: ” According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 236,967 American Indian- and Alaska Native-owned businesses in 2007, an increase of 17.7 percent from 2002. The total number of U.S. businesses increased by 17.9 percent. American Indian- and Alaska Native-owned businesses generated $34.4 billion in receipts in 2007, a 28.0 percent increase from …

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Japan Cites Radiation in Milk, Spinach Near Plant – Japanese government: Milk, spinach near stricken nuclear plant have unsafe radiation

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guardian.co.uk Datablog: “We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical database – and partially from reports. Of those we …

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Pensions at a Glance 2011 – Retirement-income Systems in OECD and G20 Countries, March 17, 2011 “This fourth edition of Pensions at a Glance provides an expanded range of indicators for comparing pension policies and the outcomes of these policies between OECD countries. The indicators are also, where possible, provided for new OECD member countries …

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The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2010 “The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami is a stark reminder of the risks inherent in nuclear power. One of its consequences has been heightened concern about the safety of nuclear power facilities in the United …

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