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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Business Policy - Oct 1, 2008
U.S. aviation officials have no legal authority to auction off takeoff and landing slots at airports, a scheme the government devised to try to curb crippling traffic jams at major airports, congressional investigators …
Also tagged: airline, new york city, plan, new york, united states, auction, challenges, to, landing, charles schumer, takeoff, newark, john f kennedy, slots, federal aviation administration, mary e peters, u s government accountability office, brian turmail, gary kepplinger, liberty international plc
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Business - Sep 30, 2008
Its original boss was Congress. Now the Government Accountability Office has a second group of people to whom it must be accountable -- union members.
Also tagged: george w bush, san francisco, first, the, union, at, a, joe davidson, david walker, national treasury employees union, colleen m kelley, american federation of government employees, international federation of professional and technical engineers, eric yoder, gene l dodaro, salary council, brian j dewyngaert
networkworld.com » Layer 8's blog - Sep 25, 2008
As one of the nation's premier national security labs and one of three nuclear weapons facilities - and after a series of high-profile security flubs -- one would think they'd go out of their way to get the facility's …
Also tagged: security, cyber security, data center, los alamos, doe
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - Sep 21, 2008
The Environmental Protection Agency has done little to curb the export of discarded electronic products containing hazardous waste, much of which ends up in poorly regulated countries and harms the environment and …
Also tagged: india, pakistan, vietnam, china, new york city, california, united states, report, texas, hong kong, tennessee, waste, denver, electronic, flow, singapore, epa, consumer electronics association, says, centers for disease control and prevention, mike thompson, bart gordon, lets, u s environmental protection agency, freely, u s government accountability office, u s house committee on foreign affairs, greenpeace international, gene green, timothy lyons, electronics takeback coalition, casey harrell
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EPA Toxic Chemical Testing is Flawed and Kept Out of Electionredgreenandblue.org » Red, Green, and Blue - Sep 20, 2008 The EPA’s system for deciding whether or not some chemicals we use on an everyday basis are toxic and can cause cancer is severely flawed, and the agency isn’t really doing anything about it. It’s gone buried under all … Also tagged: editor s choice, chemicals, center, election, toxic, epa, other politics |
zdnet.com » ZDNet Government - Sep 19, 2008
Greenpeace A new Government Accountability Office report slams the EPA for its “low priority” on e-waste. EPA regs only cover old cathode-ray tube TVs and monitors, John Stephenson, environmental director for GAO told …
Also tagged: international
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GAO: EPA Fails to Control Export of Hazardous E-Waste to Third Worldecoscraps.com » Ecoscraps - Sep 18, 2008 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a scathing critique of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today for failing to control the export of toxic e-waste to third world countries. Discarded … Also tagged: environment, lead, epa, toxins, e waste, heavy metals, berman |
networkworld.com » Layer 8's blog - Sep 17, 2008
In what may be the least astonishing news of the day, some major US companies who say they are environmentally recycling electronic waste - aren't. Rather more startling -- they are dumping everything from cell phones …
Also tagged: electronic waste, hazardous waste, epa, exports, crt
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EPA Lets Electronic Waste Flow Freely, GAO Report Saystruthout.org » Truthout - News - Sep 17, 2008 The Environmental Protection Agency has done little to curb the export of discarded electronic products containing hazardous waste, much of which ends up in poorly regulated countries and harms the environment and … Also tagged: electronics, environment, report, waste, epa, public health, environmental protection agency |
networkworld.com » Layer 8's blog - Sep 17, 2008
In what may be the least astonishing news of the day, some major US companies who say they are environmentally recycling electronic waste - aren't. Rather more startling -- they are dumping everything from cell phones …
Also tagged: e commerce, electronic waste, hazardous waste, epa, exports, crt, general discussions