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EPA OIG: EPA Can Recover More Federal Superfund Money

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EPA Can Recover More Federal Superfund Money [Report PDF – 28pp] [At a Glance PDF]

  • “We found that EPA regions have recovered $165 million of $294 million (56 percent) of the total Superfund costs from the sites we reviewed. Potentially responsible parties (PRPs) at these sites have generally paid what they have been billed. However, EPA has not recovered as much as $129 million (44 percent) and has determined it will not attempt to recover between $30 million and $90 million of this amount. This indicates a potentially significant breakdown in controls over Superfund cost recovery.”

    • Pew Study: Most Chinese Say They Approve of Government Internet Control

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    News release: “Many Americans assume that China’s internet users are unhappy about their government’s control of the internet, but a new survey finds most Chinese say they approve of internet regulation, especially by the government.” Most Chinese Say They Approve of Government Internet Control, by Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow, Pew Internet & American Life… Continue Reading

    DHS Releases Privacy Technology Implementation Guide and Incident Handling Guidance

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    Privacy Technology Implementation Guide (PTIG), August 2007 (PDF, 36 pages): “The Privacy Office developed a new general guide for technology managers and developers to integrate privacy protections into operational IT systems. This new guide, the Privacy Technology Implementation Guide (PTIG) combines elements of privacy protection from disparate privacy compliance requirements, as well as a administrative… Continue Reading

    WIPO: Cybersquatting Dispute Cases Continue to Rise

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    World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) news release: “Against the background of an unprecedented number of cybersquatting cases in 2007, the evolving nature of the domain name registration system (DNS) is causing growing concern for trademark owners around the world. Last year, a record 2,156 complaints alleging cybersquatting – or the abusive registration of trademarks on… Continue Reading

    CRS: Government Interventions in Financial Markets: Economic and Historic Analysis of Subprime Mortgage Options

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    CRS Report – Government Interventions in Financial Markets: Economic and Historic Analysis of Subprime Mortgage Options, March 25, 2008. N. Eric Weiss, Analyst in Financial Economics, Government and Finance Division. “This report summarizes and analyzes four previous government market interventions (Home Owners Loan Corporation in 1933, Continental Illinois in 1984, the savings and loan insurance… Continue Reading

    CRS Report: Averting Financial Crisis

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    Averting Financial Crisis, Updated March 21, 2008, Mark Jickling, Specialist in Financial Economics, Government and Finance Division. “There is no precise definition of “financial crisis,” but a common view is that disruptions in financial markets rise to the level of a crisis when the flow of credit to households and businesses is constrained and the… Continue Reading

    Treasury Secretary Proposes Overhaul of Financial Market Regulatory Process

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    WSJ – Sweeping Changes in Paulson Plan: “U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson plans Monday to call for sweeping structural changes in the way the government monitors financial markets, capping a broad review aimed at revamping a system of regulatory oversight built piecemeal since the Civil War. If even only some of the changes get made,… Continue Reading

    Wikipedia Hits Milestone of Ten Million Articles Across 250 Languages

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    News release: “…the Wikimedia Foundation reached a significant new milestone: on Thursday, March 27, at 00:07 UTC the official article count for all Wikipedias combined reached 10 million. The ten millionth article, a short biography of 16th century English goldsmith and painter Nicholas Hilliard, was created in the Hungarian Wikipedia by user Pataki Márta. Wikipedia… Continue Reading