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07/19/11 The Environmental Working Group recommends avoiding spray sunscreens entirely. With so little known about the effects of sunscreen chemicals on the body when rubbed into the skin, they say, we may never know how much worse the effects may be when they are inhaled.
07/14/11 Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) issued the following statements after the Missouri River Working Group meeting about the management of the flooded waterway and its affect on Kansans.
07/08/11 CARSON CITY - Nevada ranks 46th among states in the total amount of federal subsidy payments to farmers and ranchers over the past 16 years, with 89 percent receiving no payments at all, according to information from the Washington, DC-based Environmental Working Group.
07/06/11 The Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children is issuing recommendations for how unhealthy food is marketed to children ages 2 to 17. Companies could voluntarily follow the recommendations or ignore them completely.
06/01/11 The other highlight of Enterprise Florida's Rural Issues Working Group meeting held in Lake City on May 23rd was the legislative session wrap-up presented by Sharon Spratt.
05/29/11 The Indiana Economic Development Working Group is offering a series of workshops on regional economic impact for elected officials, economic development professionals, and business and civic leaders.
05/03/11 University officials formally discussed the findings of the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life at the Council on the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday.
03/23/11 If ever there was a group that could graft wings onto pigs, wrest sabers from boulders and mix up a kettle of stone soup to boot, Gov. Mark Dayton may have just assembled it. In keeping with the seven-point education plan he announced last month, yesterday state Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius announced the appointment of a 22-member Working Group on School Funding [PDF] to look for ...
02/16/11 The Consumer Electronics Association ® Product Safety Working Group has submitted a proposal to Underwriters Laboratories , an independent safety certification organization, to prevent access by children to lithium coin- and button-cell batteries in consumer electronics devices.
02/09/11 GREEN COVE SPRINGS -- The First Coast Invasives Working Group (FCIWG) will conduct a volunteer work day at Camp Chowenwaw Park on Thursday, March 3, in conjunction with National Invasive Species Awareness Week.
12/25/10 A report by the Washington-based Environmental Working Group brought public attention to an issue state officials have been quietly tracking for years. A state survey conducted over the past decade has found thousands of water sources across California with higher levels of chromium-6 than San Jose.
12/07/10 The California High Speed Rail Authority will present a number of possible rail alignments to the Tri-Valley Regional Rail Policy Working Group at 1 p.m. at the Livermore city council chambers, 3575 Pacific Ave.
12/06/10 There appears to be consensus amongst negotiators here in Cancun that the text introduced by the chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cop-operative Action (AWG-LCA), Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe that provides additional input into the outcome.
09/27/10 The Tredyffrin Township Board of Supervisors held a financial workshop Saturday, Sept. 18, to discuss the budget. The meeting, which was open to the public, was divided into four parts and covered a discussion on the 2010 year-to-date review and an end-of-year projection; a Budget Advisory Working Group (BAWG) implementation update, during which township manager Mimi Gleason went over some of ...
09/20/10 New HTUF Working Group Focuses on the Telecommunications Industry; Initial Results to Be Unveiled at HTUF's 10th Anniversary Conference in Dearborn, Sept 28-30
08/23/10 DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Revere Security announces intentions to co-chair DASH7 Alliance Security Working Group, further adoption of DASH7 technology as standard encryption for resource-constrained devices.
07/23/10 Four members of the House of Representatives have announced the formation of a new Spending Cuts and Deficit Reduction Working Group, and unveiled legislation which will cut billions of dollars in wasteful spending from the federal budget over the next decade.
07/15/10 by Coryanne Hicks Three scientists from the Palo Alto-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) have been chosen to be lead authors on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment. Scientists Richard Richels, Geoffrey Blanford and Steven Rose will be on the team for the Working Group III Report titled "Mitigation of Climate Change."
07/02/10 The IEEE Standards Association recently announced a call for participation for "Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices Working Group"
06/17/10 The Tri-Valley Regional Rail Policy Working Group voted unanimously last week to support the 2B route as the preferred route to extend BART to Livermore.
06/12/10 STEPHEN This week the government's Welfare Working Group met in Wellington to hear ideas from a host of local and international experts. The Welfare Working Group has been asked to find a fresh approach to tackling welfare dependency. |