On May 10th, 2011, the GAO released a report that examines recent turmoil surrounding Yucca Mountain, a proposed nuclear waste repository about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The idea of a national geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel has been floating around the U.S. since as early as 1957. It wasn’t until 1983, however, [...]
Archive for the ‘GAO’ Category
8 Apr
High Levels of Lead, Low Levels of Communication
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) got a public lesson in post-publication clarification when the GAO’s report “CDC Public Health Communications Need Improvement” was published earlier this week. The GAO report takes us back to Washington, D.C., in the year 2001, when the District’s Water and Sewer Authority became aware of lead levels in [...]
18 Feb
Why Derelict Government Buildings are Like Brownfields, Why that Matters, and Why Paintballers are Paying Attention
Here’s a follow-up on last week’s “Don’t Forget to Turn Off the Lights Before You Leave,” our post about President Obama’s June 2010 directive to the federal government to dispose of unneeded and underutilized property — and about the GAO’s subsequent Testimony, released last week, reporting that the process was hitting a lot of speed [...]
11 Feb
Don’t Forget to Turn Off The Lights Before You Leave
I am reminded of Antiques Roadshow, reading – of all things – a June 2010 Presidential Memorandum on the disposition of unnecessary federal real estate. The dusty artifact of unused and underused buildings owned by the government has just been valued at $3 billion. Well, kind of. It’s more like the federal government is wasting [...]
