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EPA’s model for rulemaking in the digital age
The Environmental Protection Agency's Rulemaking Gateway, which "provides information to the public on the status of EPA's priority rulemakings" could be a model for tracking rulemaking, according to an article in NextGov:
- EPA Web site paving the way to transparency, by Aliya Sternstein, NextGov (02/19/2010). EPA has committed to releasing rulemaking plans earlier than in the past. As soon as an agency regulatory policy officer determines it is appropriate to start developing a rule, information will be posted on the gateway, officials said. A regulation could appear on the site months or even years before a file is created on the governmentwide rule-tracking site Regulations.gov.
EPA upgrades to Web 2.0
EPA upgrades to Web 2.0, By Kathleen Hickey, GCN, 09/09/08.
The Environmental Protection Agency launched a redesigned Web site today that features Web 2.0 tools. EPA officials said they made the new site more interactive and task-oriented to fulfill the needs of the public and federal, state and local agencies. The new site features a blog, social bookmarking tools, Really Simple Syndication feeds, videos and podcasts about EPA activities. The site also includes links to information about protecting the environment and improving energy efficiency, recycling and pollution prevention.Continue reading
Big Data, Environmental Data
The Journal Nature has a special issue about "Big Data" with articles by Clifford Lynch, Cory Doctorow, and others. The whole issue is worth reading and is freely available online for a short time.
Coping with floods of data is now one of science's biggest challenges. In this Nature Special, we assess the need to complement smart science with smart searching; look at what the next Google will be; talk to the pioneering biologists who are trying to use wiki-type web pages to manage and interpret data; and recall that the first mass data crunchers were not computers, but the remarkable women of Harvard's Observatory.In the area of government information, David Goldston, the former chief of staff of the House Committee on Science, writes about environmental data.
- Big data: Data wrangling by David Goldston, Nature 455, no. 7209 (September 3, 2008): 15.
Multimedia at EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency has consolidated its Web 2.0 multimedia (video, photos, audio, podcasts) at Multimedia Center, US EPA. The current featured video is an interview with with US EPA Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock, discussing the Greenversations blog. It is worth watching (only about 5 minutes) as an enthusiastic view of the possibilities of better citizen communications with government. Unfortunately, the EPA, as far as I can tell, has not provided a way to bookmark videos or download them for preservation and has settled on the "standard" of Flash video, rather than open source video formats. (See Feds set sights on small screen, By Wade-Hahn Chan, FCW, August 11, 2008). Continue reading
Bush administration devalues life. EPA regulations no longer necessary
No this isn't a news item from [w:The Onion]! It's Stephen Colbert's latest Wørd segment. In it, Colbert finds much to celebrate that our individual monetary value (IMV) as derived by government actuaries has declined by almost a million dollars -- a 12% drop in five years. And Colbert rightly points out that with IMV dropping, the cost of environmental regulations is higher than their benefits which causes IMV to drop even more in a "circle of life -- minus the life!"
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