EPA Stops Collecting Some Methane Information
Another reduction in information gathering: EPA Drops Request for Methane Information from Oil and Gas Industry, By Ellen M. Gilmer, Scientific American (March 3, 2017). Companies are no longer required to provide information about onshore equipment and controls that could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Mark Brownstein, vice president of climate and energy for the […]
Cuts to NOAA Climate Change Information Gathering
One of the ways that the government decreases public access to important information is to just stop collecting it. The Trump administration has proposed cutting research funding to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a leading climate science agency. The biggest cut would be to NOAA’s satellite division, known as National Environmental Satellite, Data and […]
A rare opportunity to make a long-term difference
(Editor’s note: this post is the second of two guest editorials on Libraries Network, a nascent collaborative effort of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) spurred by the work of the DataRefuge project, End of Term crawl, and other volunteer efforts to preserve data and content from the .gov/.mil domain. The first post was pointed […]
A Long-Term Goal For Creating A Digital Government-Information Library Infrastructure
(Editor’s note: this post was a guest editorial on Libraries Network, a nascent collaborative effort of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) spurred by the work of the DataRefuge project, End of Term crawl, and other volunteer efforts to preserve data and content from the .gov/.mil domain. This is the first of 2 posts for […]
Dept of Transportation Suspends Public Comments on Two Measures
March 4, 2017 / Leave a comment
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has suspended public comment on two proposed consumer-protection measures that the Obama administration put forward during its last months in office. One measure simply requested comments in order to help the Department determine if it should regulate the common airline practice of offering less information to travel vendors such as […]
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