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Press release: “The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) announced today a Smoking & Home Fires Campaign to put an end to the number one cause of preventable home fire deaths fires started by smoking materials. The campaign is designed to alert smokers and those who live with smokers about simple steps they can take to …
Press release: “The National Transportation Safety Board today issued a safety recommendation that addresses a design issue with the I-35W bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi river on August 1, 2007. In this accident, approximately 1,000 feet of the deck truss fell into the river, and as a result, 13 people died and 145 people …
FAAs Implementation of Runway Status Lights, Federal Aviation Administration Report Number: AV-2008-021, Date Issued: January 14, 2008: “This report provides the results of our review of the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) implementation of Runway Status Lights (RWSL). We conducted this review as part of our ongoing efforts to assess FAAs actions to reduce runway incursions. …
Press release: “The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia of Joint Direct Attack Munitions as well as associated equipment and services. The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $123 million. The Government of Saudi Arabia has requested a possible sale …
U.S. Office of Special Counsel – No FEAR Act Report: Equal Employment Opportunity Data Fiscal Year 2007
“As part of its ongoing investigation into executive pay, the Oversight Committee invited three CEOs implicated in the subprime mortgage crisis to testify on February 7 about their severance and compensation packages: Mr. Angelo Mozilo, the CEO of Countrywide Financial; Mr. Charles Prince, the former CEO of Citigroup; and Mr. E. Stanley ONeal, the former …
Congressional Budget Office – Effects of Gasoline Prices on Driving Behavior and Vehicle Markets, January 2008 “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) studyprepared at the request of the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committeerelates rising gasoline prices to changes in how fast people drive, the volume of highway traffic, and rail transit ridership. It also …
Press release: “As fears of a flu pandemic have grown, the Bush administration has pursued a misguided approach to pandemic preparation that relies on a law enforcement/national security approach, rather than a public health approach to the problem, and which exposes Americans to unnecessary risk. That is the finding of an expert report…released today by …
Press release: “In the wake of the Indian “peaceful nuclear explosion” on May 17, 1974 and growing concern about the spread of nuclear weapons capabilities, the U.S. intelligence community prepared a Special National Intelligence Assessment, “Prospects for Further Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” published today by the National Security Archive.” Special National Intelligence Estimate 4-1-74, “Prospects …
NPR Morning Edition, January 14, 2008, DHS Still Dogged by Questions over Effectiveness by Pam Fessler: “The Department of Homeland Security began to take shape five years ago this month. It involved the unprecedented merger of two dozen agencies and almost 200,000 federal employees. But now, more than $200 billion later, the department faces low …
Follow up to January 8, 2008 posting, CA sues EPA, citing new technical report: Study demonstrates that CA’s standards more effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions than federal Energy Bill, today from the House Oversight Committee – Investigation Into EPA’s Denial of State Greenhouse Gas Regulations Advances: “Following EPAs failure to meet the Committees deadline …
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Remediation of Arsenic for Agriculture Sustainability, Food Security and Health in Bangladesh: “Contamination of shallow groundwater aquifers with arsenic (As) has been reported in over 20 countries around the world…but is most serious in the Bengal Delta region of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India where the groundwater …
