The Environmental Protection Agency today initiated a five-day homeland security exercise with the involvement of more than 700 personnel from federal, state and local agencies and the private sector. Called Liberty RadEx, the drill is the largest one of its kind to test the nation’s capability to clean up and help communities recover from a [...]
Earth Day 2010 was celebrated into the weekend. Yesterday, April 25, thousands of people attended the Climate Change Rally on the National Mall from 11 am to after 7 pm. Sting, John Legend, The Roots, Jimmy Cliff, Passion Pit, and Bob Weird and several other artists performed live music for the rally attendees. Some notable [...]
FBI Director Robert Mueller, III has named Gordon Snow the assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division. Snow has been working with the FBI since March of 1992, and his most recent position was deputy assistant director of the Cyber Division. Director Mueller said, “Protecting the United States against cyber crimes is one of the [...]
Stephanie Cutter has been named the Assistant to the President for Special Projects. Cutter was placed in this position April 22, 2010. Her duties will include advising the President on communications and outreach initiatives, specifically with the recent health insurance reform. Cutter, founder of The Cutter Media Group, LCC, has worked in the public service [...]
A group of retired military officers claim that school lunches have been a factor in making young Americans so fat that fewer of them meet the military’s physical fitness standards, thus jeopardizing recruitment. According to a new report titled “Too Fat to Fight” released Tuesday, more than 9 million young adults are too overweight to [...]
Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the department plans to invest more than $200 million in new solar and water power technologies. Over the next five years, the DOE will use these funds to facilitate a clean-energy economy and reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels. The new funding will also create new [...]
VA research advancements are frequently making news. Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould spoke yesterday, April 22, 2010, to kick off National Veteran Affairs Research Week. VA researchers have made numerous medical advances in the last 85 years and Gould spoke about some of these achievements, as well as more recent experiments. Gould said, “Thought [...]
Next Tuesday and Wednesday, April 27-28, GSA is hosting its 7th annual Web Manager University’s Government Web and New Media Conference. The focus of the conference is “Open Government: Why it Matters and How It Can Help Us Deliver Excellent Customer Service.” Speakers will include Martha Johnson, Administrator of GSA, Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO, David [...]
President Obama gave a speech to financial leaders on Wall Street this morning at Cooper Union in New York. A crowd of around 700 people were present, however, the speech was also broadcast live on whitehouse.gov. The goal of today’s speech was to bring to mind the need for financial reform. Obama called these “common [...]
Diseases and other health issues may be occurring due to climate change. Yesterday, April 21, 2010, the National Institute of Health released a report highlighting 11 different categories of health consequences that could occur due to climate change. A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change report is just the start of federal research of the [...]