- Short-Term Energy Outlook Supplement: Understanding the Decline in Carbon Dioxide (10/06/2009): This report explains the convergence of factors that contributes to the projected decline in CO2 emissions in 2009.”
- International Petroleum Monthly – September 2009 (10/06/2009): “This report contains world petroleum production data through July 2009; and OECD country petroleum demand, imports, and stocks data through June 2009. Also included are international oil balance data for 2005-2009 and annual petroleum data series for 1970-2008.”
- Short-Term Energy Outlook Supplement: Energy Price Volatility and Forecast Uncertainty (10/06/2009): “This report describes how markets price risk, and how the market-clearing process for risk transfer can be used to generate price bands around observed futures prices for crude oil, natural gas, and other commodities.”
- Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook October 2009 (10/06/2009): “Short-term energy projections for supply, demand, and price for the major fuels through 2010 for the U.S. This report provides an emphasis on heating fuels. International oil forecasts are included.”
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Daily Archives: October 6, 2009
EPA Issues Final Aircraft Drinking Water Rule
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is issuing a final rule to ensure that safe and reliable drinking water is provided to aircraft passengers and crew. The rule provides multiple-barrier protection through requirements for coliform sampling, best management practices, corrective action, public notification, monitoring and operator training. It will better protect the public from… Continue Reading
Public Health Survey Survey Finds Just 40% of Adults "Absolutely Certain" They Will Get H1N1 Vaccine
News release: “In a new survey, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that just 40% of adults are “absolutely certain” they will get the H1N1 vaccine for themselves, and 51% of parents are “absolutely certain” that they will get the vaccine for their children. The survey examined the reasoning among those who said… Continue Reading
Report: Ten Riskiest Foods Regulated by the FDA
The Riskiest Foods Regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI – a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. “Leafy greens, eggs, and tuna are on the top of a list of the 10 riskiest foods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Those and seven other… Continue Reading
Assessment of Long-Range Transport of Key Air Pollutants to and from United States
“Recent advances in air pollution monitoring and modeling capabilities have made it possible to show that air pollution can be transported long-distances, and that adverse impacts of emitted pollutants cannot be confined to one country or even one continent. Pollutants from traffic, cooking stoves, and factories emitted half a world away can make the air… Continue Reading
Trust for Americas Health Report: H1N1 Challenges Ahead, October 2009
“Trust for Americas Health (TFAH) released a new report that finds 15 states could run out of available hospital beds during the peak of the outbreak, if 35 percent of Americans were to get sick from the H1N1 flu virus. Twelve additional states could reach or exceed 75 percent of their hospital bed capacity, based… Continue Reading
UK Financial Services Authority finalises far-reaching overhaul of UK liquidity regulation
News release: “”The Financial Services Authority (FSA)..published its final rules on the liquidity requirements expected of firms. The far-reaching overhaul, designed to enhance firms liquidity risk management practices, is based on the lessons learned since the start of the credit crisis in 2007. The new rules will require changes to firms business models and will… Continue Reading
Study Says Employers Increasingly Monitoring Outbound Emails
National Law Journal: “The economy has employers extra jittery about company secrets getting out, so nervous that they’re hiring staff just to monitor outbound e-mails. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by Proofpoint, an Internet security and data loss prevention company, which found that 38 percent of large U.S. employers are monitoring outbound e-mail… Continue Reading
Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book 2009
Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Published Summer 2009 – 949 pages, PDF, declassified), released Summer 2009. Robert S. Litt, General Counsel: “The Intelligence Community draws much of its authority and guidance from the body of law contained in this collection. We hope this proves to be a useful… Continue Reading
