For too long, the Federal Government has failed to effectively harness the power and potential of information technology (IT) — despite spending approximately $80 billion dollars on IT each year, and more than $600 billion over the past decade. As a result, it has lagged far behind the private sector in the reaping the gains […]
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced EPA's proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, a Clean Air Act protection to reduce harmful pollution in the air we breathe and help safeguard the health of millions of Americans. Join Administrator Jackson for a special White House live chat on the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards tomorrow, […]
Ed. Note: This post is part of our Sunshine Week series, a national initiative to celebrate and focus on government transparency and open government. Few things are as deeply personal as your health or the health of your loved ones, and few decisions deserve as much attention as those we make in our daily lives […]
This week, the EPA proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, a Clean Air Act protection that sets the first-ever national safeguards to limit power plant releases of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases into the air we breathe. America’s power plants are the source of half of the mercury emissions, half of the acid […]
Press Secretary Jay Carney gave the following update on the situation in Japan at the outset of his press briefing today: read more Fonte: White House
President Barack Obama talks with the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search finalists in the East Room of the White House, Keeping his commitment to honor remarkable science and math scholars just like sports champions, President Obama today welcomed 40 high school finalists of the Intel Science Talent Search to the White House. The President congratulated the […]
President Obama has given us a strong vision of what it’s going to take to win the future – that’s by out-innovating, out-educating and out-building the rest of the world. In order to realize that vision, America must keep up with the pace of technological advances that are greatly impacting the global economy. The truth […]
Today, the Administration issued 20 legislative recommendations to Congress, designed to improve intellectual property enforcement. These legislative recommendations exemplify the Administration’s commitment to protect and grow jobs and exports, as well as to safeguard the health and safety of our people. The theft of American innovation costs jobs and imperils economic growth. This must end. […]
Ed. Note: Records show that agencies have indeed made disclosure through FOIA a priority this past year. Learn more about the Justice Department's latest annual reports. Sunshine Week is a welcome opportunity to size up the federal government’s progress in implementing the President and the Attorney General’s directives on openness and the Freedom of Information […]
Ed. Note: This post originally appeared on The Justice Blog. FOIA.gov is a site dedicated to the Freedom of Information Act, a law at the very heart of open government. Congress passed the FOIA in 1966 and since then it has been known as the law that keeps citizens “in the know” about what their […]
