Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook October 2007 (10/09/2007): “Quarterly short-term energy projections for supply, demand, and price for the major fuels, focusing on the winter fuels, through 2008 for the U.S. International oil forecasts are included.”
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Daily Archives: October 9, 2007
White House: National Strategy for Homeland Security
Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Homeland Security – A Comprehensive Guide For Securing the Homeland: “Today, the President issued an updated National Strategy for Homeland Security, which will serve to guide, organize, and unify our Nation’s homeland security efforts. This Strategy is a national strategy not a Federal strategy and articulates our approach… Continue Reading
U.S. Announces Largest Single Environmental Settlement in History
Press release: “American Electric Power has agreed to cut 813,000 tons of air pollutants annually at an estimated cost of more than $4.6 billion, pay a $15 million penalty, and spend $60 million on projects to mitigate the adverse effects of its past excess emissions. The record settlement was announced today by the Department of… Continue Reading
Rand Report – U.S. Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment
U.S. Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment, by Olga Oliker, Keith Crane, Audra K. Grant, Terrence K. Kelly, Andrew Rathmell, David Brannan (104 pages, PDF): “This book evaluates the costs and benefits of five alternative strategies the United States could pursue in Iraq. The authors argue that, as long as the United States remains in… Continue Reading
Conyers, Reyes Introduce FISA Revision Legislation
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) introduced The Responsible Electronic Surveillance that is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective Act of 2007 the RESTORE Act,in an effort to address concerns about civil liberty protections in the hastily-enacted Protect America Act that was signed into… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Ryan White Care Act, Prescription Drug Pricing, Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq
Ryan White Care Act: Impact of Legislative Funding Proposal on Urban Areas, GAO-08-137R, October 5, 2007 Prescription Drugs: Trends in Usual and Customary Prices for Drugs Frequently Used by Medicare and Non-Medicare Health Insurance Enrollees, GAO-07-1201R, September 7, 2007 Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: U.S. Ministry Capacity Development Efforts Need an Overall Integrated Strategy to Guide… Continue Reading
SEC Staff Observations in the Review of Executive Compensation Disclosure
“Division of Corporation Finance, Executive Summary: The Division of Corporation Finance has completed its initial review of the executive compensation and related disclosure of 350 public companies under the Securities and Exchange Commissions new and revised rules relating to executive compensation disclosure.” Continue Reading
"Wiki the Vote" Project on Congresspedia Profiles Congressional Candidates in the 2008 Election
“On Tuesday, the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation launched a new collaborative, citizen-driven project on Congresspedia to build profiles on the hundreds of challengers for congressional seats, which will compliment the existing profiles on every member of Congress. The project is non-partisan and, in true open-source fashion, is free for anyone… Continue Reading
Muslim Asylum Claims in U.S. Courts: A Legal Examination
Muslim Asylum Claims in U.S. Courts: A Legal Examination, by Jeffrey Breinholt, Published on October 8, 2007. Continue Reading
Council of Europe Website Campaign to Stop Domestic Violence Against Women
“Statistics show that 12 % to 15 % of women in Europe face violence in the home every day. The Council of Europe Europes leading human rights organisation – has decided it is time it stopped. It has launched a campaign in its member countries to criminalise domestic violence, ensure support for victims and… Continue Reading
First Internet Census Since 1982
62 Days + Almost 3 Billion Pings + New Visualization Scheme = the First Internet Census Since 1982: “Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion allocated addresses on… Continue Reading
Google Remains at the Top – comScore August 2007 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
“comScore, Inc….released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. Among core search engines in August 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property with more than 5.5 billion core searches conducted, representing a 56.5 percent share of the search market…In August, Google Sites maintained its position atop the core search rankings with 56.5… Continue Reading
