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News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released guidance recommending that schools take steps to reduce potential exposures to PCBs from older fluorescent lighting fixtures. The guidance, part of EPAs ongoing efforts to address potential PCB exposures in schools, is based on evidence that the older ballasts contain PCBs that can leak when …
News release: “A secretarial order issued [December 23, 2010] by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar restores balance and clarity to the management of public lands by establishing common-sense policy for the protection of backcountry areas where Americans recreate, find solitude, and enjoy the wild. Secretarial Order 3310 directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), …
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created several free, publicly-available graphics about radon and a new public service announcement campaign for print, television, and radio at http://www.epa.gov/radon. EPAs newest campaign is Living Healthy & Green. We want Americans to know that a big part of living green is breathing clean, healthy indoor air. One of …
Ashley Halsey III: “The air traffic controllers in the Washington region, who direct more than 1.5 million flights, have made a record number of mistakes this year, triggering cockpit collision warning systems dozens of times. Errors recorded by air traffic controllers have increased by 51 percent nationwide, and the Federal Aviation Administration this week cautioned …
News release: “More than ten million people in the UK today can expect to live to see their 100th birthday 17 per cent of the population. Three million are currently aged under 16, 5.5 million are aged between 16 and 50, and 1.3 million are aged between 51 and 65. Around 875,000 are already …
“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the release of a new paper, Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing, by Bruce Etling, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey.” “In this paper, we discuss the possible impact of digital technologies in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes. We …
News release: “As part of the U.S. Small Business Administrations mission to ensure that small business owners and entrepreneurs have access to accurate, timely and helpful information, SBA Administrator Karen Mills unveiled a newly re-designed SBA website. The new site also features the launch of SBA Direct, a dynamic new web tool with a variety …
CBO: Evaluating Limits on Participation and Transactions in Markets for Emissions Allowances, December 2010 “In response to concerns that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could have serious and costly effects, the Congress has considered creating a nationwide cap-and-trade program that would limit emissions of those gases below the levels projected under current …
“The Online Public Access prototype is our first step to providing a single search to our records from several of our current systems, including the Archival Research Catalog (ARC), Access to Archival Databases (AAD), Archives.gov, and the Electronic Records Archive (ERA). As part of the National Archives’ flagship initiative in our Open Government Plan, our …
Follow up to previous postings on WikiLeaks, see The WikiLeaks News & Views Blog by Greg Mitchell via The Nation. This blog is coded as a daily entry, so readers link to each updated posting either via Greg’s Twitter feed, or by selecting the specific date of his posting (for example, this is Day 32). …
News release: “The credit quality of first-lien mortgages serviced by large national banks and thrifts remained steady during the third quarter of 2010, but the pace of foreclosures increased, according to a report released today. The quarterly report by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision showed that …
County Compensation by Industry, 2009: “Compensation declined in two-thirds of the 3,113 counties in the U.S. in 2009, according to statistics released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Total compensation of U.S. workers contracted 3.2 percent in 2009, as a decline in employment more than offset the increase in average annual compensation per …
