Energy-Water Nexus: A Better and Coordinated Understanding of Water Resources Could Help Mitigate the Impacts of Potential Oil Shale Development, GAO-11-35, October 29, 2010 Federal Oil and Gas Leases: Opportunities Exist to Capture Vented and Flared Natural Gas, Which Would Increase Royalty Payments and Reduce Greenhouse Gases, GAO-11-34, October 29, 2010 Forest Service Research and… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Forbes Reports Next WikiLeaks Data Dump on Major Bank
Andy Greenberg’s interview was conducted in London on November 11, 2010 – prior to the data dump of U.S. State Department documents: “Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests… Continue Reading
EPA finalizes 2011 Standards for the Renewable Fuel Standards program
News release: “EPA is finalizing the volume requirements and associated percentage standards that will apply under the RFS2 program in calendar year 2011 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel. The standards will ensure that transportation fuel sold in the United States contains a minimum volume of renewable fuel as required… Continue Reading
Roadmap for New Physicians: Avoiding Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse
“HHS OIG conducted a survey to learn what types of instruction medical students, residents, and fellows receive on Medicare and Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse. OIG developed a document that summarizes the five main Federal fraud and abuse laws and provides tips on how physicians should comply with these laws. Take a look at the… Continue Reading
New Affordable Care Act rules give consumers better value for insurance premiums
News release: “New regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) require health insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality. This regulation, known as the medical loss ratio provision of the Affordable Care Act, will make the insurance… Continue Reading
Confronting Space Debris Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon
Rand – Confronting Space Debris, Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon, by Dave Baiocchi, William Welser, IV “Orbital debris represents a growing threat to the operation of man-made systems in space. There are currently hundreds of thousands of debris objects greater than one centimeter in diameter in Earth’s orbit, and the collision… Continue Reading
EU Comparative Study on Work Related Stress
“This report, Work-related stress, examines the issue of work-related stress in the 27 EU Member States and Norway. Studies capturing data on work-related stress in individual countries differ in terms of their scope, methodology and coverage. The main risk factors for work-related stress include heavy workload, long working hours, lack of control and autonomy at… Continue Reading
OECD: Health: Improving health care efficiency is key to curbing spiraling costs
Summary: “Governments must make their health care systems more efficient if they are to maintain quality of care without putting further stress on public finances, according to a new OECD report. In Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Policy Settings, the OECD warns that cash-strapped governments no longer have the option of boosting spending to improve… Continue Reading
WikiLeaks Releases Secret US Embassy Cables
“Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities. The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Actual Innocence and Freestanding Claims for Relief
LLRX.com – Actual Innocence and Freestanding Claims for Relief: Ken Strutin has written extensively for LLRX.com on criminal law issues. He argues that false confessions, bad eyewitness identifications, and faulty forensics, among other problems, have shown that seemingly iron clad adjudications can reach the wrong result. A ‘guilty’ verdict only indicates that the government has… Continue Reading
WikiLeaks Data Dump Verifies China's Attack On Google
Following WikiLeaks Releases Secret US Embassy Cables, confirmation that China hacked Google’s source code – see also related information on this issue from TechCrunch. Continue Reading
Apple Leverages Amazing Success Amidst Economic Troubles
MercuryNews.com: “As 2010 draws to a close, much of the tech world is struggling to regain its footing after a difficult recession. Then there’s Apple. Never before has this venerable company, which at age 34 is a grizzled veteran by Silicon Valley standards, stood so firmly atop the high-tech industry. Earlier this year, Apple’s market… Continue Reading
