Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this press release: “Today Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) released an internal BP document showing that the company’s own analysis believed that a worst-case scenario, based on damage to the well bore, could result in 100,000 barrels of oil per day. In the document, BP stated: If BOP and wellhead are removed and if we have incorrectly modeled the restrictions the rate could be as high as ~ 100,000 barrels per day up the casing or 55,000 barrels per day up the annulus (low probability worst cases). This number is in sharp contrast to BPs initial claim that the leak was just 1,000 barrels a day. At the time this document was made available to Congress, BP claimed the leak was 5,000 barrels a day, and told Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that the worst case scenario was be 60,000 barrels a day. This document tells a different story.”
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Daily Archives: June 20, 2010
CBO: Average Federal Tax Rates in 2007
Average Federal Tax Rates in 2007: “This page contains CBO’s estimates of average federal tax rates (tax rates as a percentage of income) paid by households in various income categories for the four largest sources of federal revenue – individual income taxes, social insurance (payroll) taxes, corporate income taxes, and excise taxes – as well… Continue Reading
DHS OIG: U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team Makes Progress in Securing Cyberspace, but Challenges Remain
U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team Makes Progress in Securing Cyberspace, but Challenges Remain, OIG-10-94, June 2010 “This report addresses the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Teams (US-CERT) efforts to coordinate national cyber analyses and warnings against and response to attacks within the nations critical infrastructure…US-CERT is hindered in its ability to provide an effective analysis and… Continue Reading
Human Rights Campaign Foundation – Healthcare Equality Index
Human Rights Campaign Foundation: “The Healthcare Equality Index 2010 is an annual survey of healthcare policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients and their families. This report details the results of the 2010 survey, outlining the responses from 178 healthcare facilities from 21 states and the District of Columbia. Thirteen healthcare… Continue Reading
World Health Organization Model Formulary for Children provides information on how to use over 240 essential medicines
News release: “The first ever WHO Model Formulary for Children released by the WHO provides information on how to use over 240 essential medicines for treating illness and disease in children from 0 to 12 years of age. This means that for the first time medical practitioners worldwide have access to standardized information on the… Continue Reading
Hired Guns: Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Hired Guns – Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom, by Sarah K. Cotton, Ulrich Petersohn, Molly Dunigan, Q Burkhart, Megan Zander-Cotugno, Edward O’Connell, Michael Webber “The use of armed private security contractors (PSCs) in the Iraq war has been unprecedented. Not only government agencies but also journalists, reconstruction contractors, and nongovernmental organizations frequently… Continue Reading
Federal Judges Surveyed on Criminal Sentencing
Follow up to previous posting sentencing guidelines, “U.S. Sentencing Commission has published the results of the first-ever survey of federal trial judges to elicit their views about federal sentencing under the advisory guidelines system in effect since 2005. The survey, among many other findings, indicates that 62 percent of the responding judges believe that mandatory… Continue Reading
NIH: Vitamin D Status is Not Associated with Risk for Less Common Cancers
News release: “Despite hopes that higher blood levels of vitamin D might reduce cancer risk, a large study finds no protective effect against non-Hodgkin lymphoma or cancer of the endometrium, esophagus, stomach, kidney, ovary, or pancreas. In this study, carried out by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of… Continue Reading
Sunlight Foundation Showcases Best Redesigned .Gov Sites and How A Bill Becomes a Law
“The Design for America contest led to the most compelling, interesting visualizations of any of our contests. With about 72 entries, the design community stepped up and showed amazing ways for us to view government and imagine new ways for government to serve citizens. [The winners are here] The category most illustrative of how government… Continue Reading
WSJ Analysis: BP Used 'Risky' Design More Often Than Most Peers
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, WSJ reports BP Relied on Cheaper Wells: “In recent years, oil giant BP PLC used a well design that has been called “risky” by Congressional investigators in more than one out of three of its deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico, significantly more often… Continue Reading
HHS: Changing Substance Abuse Patterns among Older Admissions: 1992 and 2008
The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) Report, Changing Substance Abuse Patterns among Older Admissions: 1992 and 2008 “Treatment admissions aged 50 or older increased from 6.6 percent of all admissions 12 years of age or older in 1992 to 12.2 percent in 2008. Between 1992 and 2008, the proportion of older admissions that reported primary… Continue Reading
UNODC report: International criminal markets have become major centres of power
News release: “A report released by UN Office on Drugs and Crime shows how organized crime has globalized and turned into one of the world’s foremost economic and armed powers. The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment, released at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, looks at major trafficking flows… Continue Reading
