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News release {includes link to video and charts]: “Climate change and over-use of water will mean that nearly on in every two people will live in water-stressed areas by 2030. Households, industry and agriculture will increasingly compete for water, leaving little to sustain ecosystems. Three new OECD studies say that putting the right price on …
U.S. Joint Forces Commands Joint Operating Environment (JOE) 2010 report, February 18, 2010 “The Joint Operating Environment is intended to inform joint concept development and experimentation throughout the Department of Defense. It provides a perspective on future trends, shocks, contexts, and implications for future joint force commanders and other leaders and professionals in the national …
News release: “Today, the Federal Communications Commission delivered to Congress a National Broadband Plan setting an ambitious agenda for connecting all corners of the nation while transforming the economy and society with the communications network of the future — robust, affordable Internet…Titled Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan, the Plan found that while broadband access …
Homeland Security: Ongoing Challenges Impact the Federal Protective Service’s Ability to Protect Federal Facilities, GAO-10-506T, March 16, 2010 U.S. Insular Areas: Opportunities Exist to Improve Interior’s Grant Oversight and Reduce the Potential for Mismanagement, GAO-10-347, March 16, 2010 Defense Acquisitions: Opportunities Exist to Position Army’s Ground Force Modernization Efforts for Success, GAO-10-406, March 15, 2010
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, Quarterly Report to Congress and to the President of the United States. Insight and Information on the Recovery Boards Operations Through February 2010. Released March 16, 2010. “The value that transparency brings to the oversight mission should not be underestimated. For the first time ever we can screen and analyze …
News release: “[On March 15, 2010] Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced bipartisan legislation to make further improvements to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the nations premier open government law. Leahy is a longtime leader on FOIA issues, and has led efforts to make the federal government more open and transparent to the people it …
News release: POGO has sent a letter to Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urging him to implement an idea he recently said he supported: a public database listing any financial arrangements, such as payment for consulting, between NIH grantees and outside organizations…Dr. Collins explained his views on such …
News release: “As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jacksons strong commitment to increase information on chemicals, for the first time, EPA is providing web access, free of charge, to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory. This inventory contains a consolidated list of thousands of industrial chemicals maintained by the agency. EPA is …
Office of Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd: Financial Reform Legislation Summary Financial Reform Legislation (1336 pages, PDF) – To promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end “too big to fail”, to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to …
News release: “Titled Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan, the Plan found that while broadband access and use have increased over the past decade, the nation must do much more to connect all individuals and the economy to broadbands transformative benefits. Nearly 100 million Americans lack broadband at home today, and 14 million Americans do …
Financial Market Supervision: European Perspectives. James K. Jackson, Specialist in International Trade and Finance, February 4, 2010. “…governments in Europe are considering what, if any, changes they should make to their national financial systems. Along with the United States and other countries, European countries also are considering changes to the international systems of financial supervision …
2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, March 11, 2010 “The idea of human rights begins with a fundamental commitment to the dignity that is the birthright of every man, woman and child. Progress in advancing human rights begins with the facts. And for the last 34 years, the United States has produced the Country …
