Credit and Debit Cards: Federal Agencies Benefit from Card Acceptance, but Have Limited Ability to Control Interchange Fee Costs, GAO-10-821T, June 16, 2010 Cybersecurity: Continued Attention Is Needed to Protect Federal Information Systems from Evolving Threats, GAO-10-834T, June 16, 2010 Federal Energy Management: GSA’s Recovery Act Program Is on Track, but Opportunities Exist to Improve… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
EIA: Electric Power Monthly, June 2010
Electric Power Monthly June 16, 2010: “The latest EPM issue (June 2010) is now available. Data are for March 2010, during which net generation in the United States grew by 0.3 percent and consumption of coal for power generation grew by 6.4 percent compared to March 2009. The average retail price of electricity for… Continue Reading
Privacy International Launches System to Shed Light on Controversial Technologies
EPIC: “International watchdog Privacy International has announced the launch of a new website for bringing transparency to “technical mysteries” behind controversial systems. Cracking the Black Box identifies key questions regarding mysterious technologies and asks experts, whistleblowers, and other concerned parties to “help crack the box” by anonymously contributing ideas and input. The organization responsible for… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: What is Open Source?
What is Open Source? – In the past few years, the term open source has been bandied about not just in library-land, but in every industry. When a term is talked about this much, some would say to the point of overuse, people start to think it’s a fad. In this and upcoming articles, Nicole… Continue Reading
EIA: How much of the world's electricity supply is generated from wind and who are the leading generators?
How much of the world’s electricity supply is generated from wind and who are the leading generators? “Worldwide wind power generation exceeded 200 billion kilowatthours in 2008, which is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of over 18 million average households in the United States. Wind generation increased by about 25% from 2007 to 2008,… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Statistical Release – Industrial production and capacity utilization
Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.17- Industrial production and capacity utilization “Industrial production advanced 1.2 percent in May after having risen 0.7 percent in April. Manufacturing output climbed 0.9 percent last month, its third consecutive monthly gain of about 1 percent, and was 7.9 percent above its year-earlier level. Outside of manufacturing, the output of mines… Continue Reading
CBO Cost Estimate: H.R. 4173, Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010
“CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that enacting H.R. 4173 would increase revenues by $12.1 billion over the 2011-2015 period and by $33.5 billion over the 2011-2020 period and increase direct spending by $25.0 billion and $53.2 billion over the same periods, respectively. In total, CBO estimates those changes would increase budget… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: FOIA Facts – Ideas for Faster FOIA Processing
FOIA Facts – Ideas for Faster FOIA Processing: Scott A. Hodes notes that in the current Congress there are bills pending that would create a commission to come up with ideas for faster FOIA processing. He contends that by taking those ideas, along with a few days of congressional oversight hearings to solicit other opinions,… Continue Reading
Rand – Security at what cost? Quantifying trade-offs across liberty, privacy and security
Rand – Security at what cost? Quantifying trade-offs across liberty, privacy and security, by Neil Robinson, Dimitris Potoglou, Chong Woo Kim, Peter Burge, Richard Warnes “The balance between liberty, privacy and security is often polarised around concerns for civil liberties and public safety. To balance these concerns, policymakers need to consider the economic and social… Continue Reading
New York Fed Publishes Web Page on Actions Related to AIG
“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a new section on its website to provide comprehensive information regarding its involvement with American International Group, Inc. (AIG) to the public in a more accessible manner. As part of the Federal Reserves ongoing efforts to increase transparency and access to information, the new web page serves… Continue Reading
DC Law Firm Partner Named By Obama to restructure oil industry regulation
Legal Times: “Michael Bromwich, a litigation partner in the Washington and New York offices of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson who was a Justice Department watchdog in the 1990s, was named today to head up the Obama administration’s effort to improve regulation of the oil industry following the Gulf of Mexico disaster…The White House… Continue Reading
Hearing on Drilling Down on Americas Energy Future: Safety, Security, and Clean Energy
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, briefing memo for Hearing entitled Drilling Down on Americas Energy Future: Safety, Security and Clean Energy: “The United States dependence on foreign oil has also increased over time. In 1995, the United States imported 45 percent of its oil. By 2008, that number had increased… Continue Reading
