Press release: “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the first round of sampling results from its Lower Manhattan Test and Clean program, established to identify the possible presence of contaminants associated with the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings. EPA has posted this round of data on its Web site. The Agency is continuing to test residential and commercial spaces and will update the Web site regularly as more data becomes available.”
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Daily Archives: November 27, 2007
Sixth Edition of Greenpeace International's Guide to Greener Electronics
Press release: “The sixth edition of Greenpeace Internationals Guide to Greener Electronics has been expanded to include televisions and game consoles.(1) Market leaders Microsoft, Nintendo, Philips and Sharp enter at the bottom of the ranking of environmental performance with Nintendo being the first company scoring zero out of a possible 10 points. Philips and Microsoft… Continue Reading
Google Announces Corporate Initative for Renewable Energy
Press release: “Google today announced a new strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal. The newly created initiative, known as RE/C [Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal], will focus initially on advanced solar thermal power, wind power technologies, enhanced geothermal systems and other potential breakthrough… Continue Reading
Universal Digital Library Completes 1.5 Million Book Digitization Milestone
News.com: “The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitization of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publically available. The online library offers full text downloads of works that are in the public domain, or for which the copyright holder has… Continue Reading
New Privacy Rules Imminent, Another Privacy Change Contemplated
US Courts: “New rules providing privacy protection for case files posted online in the federal district, bankruptcy and appellate courts are scheduled to take effect December 1, 2007. Some of the rules represent a change in Judicial Conference policy. Meanwhile, a Judicial Conference committee is studying a related privacy issue: Whether courts should restrict Internet… Continue Reading
Verizon Wireless Announces Plans to Open Network
Verizon press release: “Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company. Verizon Wireless plans to have this new choice available to customers throughout the country by the end of 2008.” Center for Democracy and Technology:… Continue Reading
A Decade of Change in the Federal Courts Caseload: Fiscal Years 1997-2006
US Courts: “Supreme Court decisions, shifting Administration priorities, new legislation, and numerous other factors caused the composition of the federal courts caseload to change over the past decade. Between September 30, 1997 and September 30, 2006, appeals court filings steadily climbed, district court caseloads fluctuated, and bankruptcy filings hit a record high before tumbling following… Continue Reading
FTC Releases Survey of Identity Theft in the U.S. Study Shows 8.3 Million Victims in 2005
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today released a survey showing that 8.3 million American adults, or 3.7 percent of all American adults, were victims of identity theft in 2005. Of the victims, 3.2 million, or 1.4 percent of all adults, experienced misuse of their existing credit card accounts; 3.3 million, or 1.5 percent, experienced… Continue Reading
Joint Understanding Between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
Joint Understanding Read by President Bush at Annapolis Conference, November 27, 2007. Continue Reading
DOJ FOIA Post: Summaries of New Decisions – October 2007
DOJ FOIA Post: Summaries of New Decisions — October 2007: “As announced previously by OIP, we are now posting up-to-date summaries of new court decisions. To facilitate their review, cases are broken down by FOIA Exemption or procedural element and internal citations and quotations have been omitted. OIP provides these case summaries as a public… Continue Reading
Virtual International Authority File Project Announces Enhancements
LC press release: “The Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and OCLC have signed a memorandum of understanding to extend and enhance the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), a project that virtually combines multiple name authority files into a single name authority service. Building on a previous proof-of-concept research project… Continue Reading
WSJ Reports on Forthcoming Google Web Storage Service
WSJ: “Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives — such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familiar with the matter. The service could let users access their files via the Internet… Continue Reading
