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Information Today
June 18, 2015 |
EPA Mapping Tool Identifies Environmental Problem Areas The mapping and screening tool helps state and local government officials, researchers, and advocates locate communities facing environmental risks based on nationwide, consistent data.   |
National Defense
May 2009
Magnuson & Rusling |
First Responders: To Fight Terror, Cross-Training Needed First responders should be trained to deal with a myriad of emergencies, from nuclear to biological attack. |
Searcher
May 2003
Miriam Drake |
Government Doublethink: Protection or Supression in Information This article deals with government information activities after September 11, 2001 and covers regulations and actions related to government withholding, suppressing, and altering information. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2008 |
Human Life: Do We Have a Bidder? Five years ago, an individual life was worth almost $1 million more than it is today. The EPA uses this data to determine what regulations are the most cost-effective, and if the price of a life does not exceed the cost of enforcing a particular regulation that will save it, the regs are out. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Arianne Cohen |
North Carolina Chemical Fire: What Went Wrong When a building full of hazardous waste went up in flames, a noxious cloud forced the evacuation of nearly 17,000 and raised concerns about such facilities nationwide. |
Chemistry World
April 13, 2011
Hepeng Jia |
Full steam ahead for China's nuclear development As the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan escalates and continues to be the cause of worldwide concern, China is unlikely to stop its ambitious plan to expand its nuclear industry. |
Chemistry World
July 24, 2008
Victoria Gill |
Go ahead for UK national nuclear lab The UK government has given the go-ahead to establishing a national nuclear laboratory (NNL), and launched a competition to find it a commercial operator. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
EPA criticized over asbestos clean-up research The US Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog has found that the agency's costly and time-consuming experiments on alternative asbestos control methods lacked effective oversight and threatened human health. |
Chemistry World
December 9, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
EPA tweaks hazardous waste rules for academic labs US chemistry laboratories have been freed from regulations on handling hazardous waste that lumped them under the same rules as industrial facilities. |
Information Today
May 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Removing Information from the Public Web What are the implications of removing "sensitive information" from the public domain on the basis that it could be used for terrorism? |
Geotimes
November 2003
Megan Sever |
Government peer review The federal government recently proposed extensive new peer-review procedures for scientific reports from regulatory agencies. While some agencies already practice peer review with their documents, these, the first government-wide mandated standards, have some people crying foul. |
National Defense
April 2004
Geoff S. Fein |
Security Teams Toughen Training Program The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the power plant industry are laying the groundwork for creating an adversary team to test security at the 104 licensed facilities in the United States. Their goal is to standardize force-on-force training at the nation's nuclear power plants. |
CFO
January 1, 2002
Stephen Barr |
A Graham of Prevention The Bush Administration has changed its tactics for ridding business of regulations deemed undesirable. Meet the man who's now in charge. |
Information Today
February 12, 2007
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? Much has transpired in the year since our last NewsBreak concerning the closure of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency libraries. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2011
Travis Hoium |
3 Reasons to Avoid Nuclear Power Safety, costs, and energy trends make nuclear a poor investment right now. |
Chemistry World
January 11, 2010
Helen Carmichael |
EPA: Bankrupt chemical firms must pay for site clean up The US Environmental Protection Agency has tabled new proposals to prevent taxpayers footing the environmental clean up bills for cash-strapped chemical companies. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
Charles Perrow |
Shrink The Targets Human nature can better withstand a dozen small disasters than a single great one, even if the casualty total is the same. Protecting America's big targets is next to impossible; we should instead downsize them to make them less consequential and easier to protect. |
