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Full Report – Beige Book, January 12, 2011 – Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, and link to reports by Districts: “Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that economic activity continued to expand moderately from November through December. Conditions were said to be improving in the Boston, New …
Electricity Grid Modernization: Progress Being Made on Cybersecurity Guidelines, but Key Challenges Remain to be Addressed, GAO-11-117, January 12, 2011: “The electric industry is increasingly incorporating information technology (IT) systems into its operations as part of nationwide effortscommonly referred to as smart gridto improve reliability and efficiency. There is concern that if these efforts are …
DHS Privacy Office 2010 Data Mining Report to Congress, December 2010 “This is the DHS Privacy Offices fifth comprehensive report to Congress on DHS activities that involve data mining, and the third report pursuant to the Data Mining Reporting Act. The Homeland Security Act expressly authorizes the Department to use data mining, among other analytical …
The 2010 Congressional Reapportionment and Latinos, January 2010 “Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats, according to an analysis of Census data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew …
Deep Water – The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling Report to the President, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, January 2011 [Note: GPO has also published this report, here] “…the disaster in the Gulf undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators, and even …
Short-Term Energy Outlook January 2011 Jan 11, 2011: “Short-term energy projections for supply, demand, and price for the major fuels through 2012 for the U.S. International oil forecasts are included.”
News release: “Metropolitan population growth is just one of more than a thousand topics addressed in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2011. The Abstract is perennially the federal government’s best-selling reference book. When it was first published in 1878, the nation had only 38 states, people usually got around using …
News release: “Today, the agency…has issued guidance recommending how public water systems might enhance monitoring and sampling programs specifically for hexavalent chromium. The recommendations are in response to emerging scientific evidence that chromium-6 could pose health concerns if consumed over long periods of time…The enhanced monitoring guidance provides recommendations on where the systems should collect …
Follow up to previous postings on high speed rail in America, this news about “a new study released today by America 2050 identifies the high-speed rail corridors with the greatest potential to attract ridership in each of the nation’s megaregions. Corridors connecting populous regions with large job centers, rail transit networks, and existing air markets …
Screening and Securing Air Cargo: Background and Issues for Congress, Bart Elias, Specialist in Aviation Policy. December 2, 2010 “The October 2010 discovery of two explosive devices being prepared for loading on U.S.-bound all-cargo aircraft overseas has heightened concerns over the potential use of air cargo shipments to bomb passenger and all-cargo aircraft. The incidents …
The Private Security Industry: A Review of the Definitions, Available Data Sources, and Paths Moving Forward – Literature Review and Secondary Data Analysis Prepared, December 2010 “The private security industry is a crucial component of security and safety in the United States and abroad. Today, private security is responsible not only for protecting many of …
Via CNBC: “Banking regulators have quietly taken a major step towards harmonised global regulation by agreeing to raise worldwide capital requirements whenever an individual country declares a credit bubble. Part of the larger Basel III banking reform package, the countercyclical capital buffer heralds a step change in the way national banking regulators interact and is …
