Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 8/3/24

8/5 - Census Bureau Releases 2020 Census Microdata (Census; direct to data page)

8/5 - Long-Term Growth Projected as U.S. Poultry and Egg Sector Recovers (ERS)

8/5 - GSA releases updated standards to accelerate federal buildings toward zero emissions (GSA; direct to standards page)

8/5 - New NEH-NEA Partnership Will Expand Data Available on Humanities and Arts and Cultural Organizations (NEH)

8/6 - CDC Data Show Improvements in Youth Mental Health but Need for Safer and More Supportive Schools (CDC; direct to report)

8/6 - The Enduring Work of Protecting Voting Rights: 59 Years and Counting (DOJ; see also, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on 59th Anniversary of the Voting Right Act)

8/6 - EPA Issues Emergency Order to Stop Use of Pesticide Dacthal to Address Serious Health Risk (EPA)

8/6 - IMLS Awards Over $3M in Grant Funding through Museums Empowered Program (IMLS; direct to awards page; see also, IMLS Awards Over $23M in Grant Funding through Museums for America Program and awards page)

8/6 - Smithsonian-Gallup Study Uncovers Gaps in How US Science Standards Are Preparing Students To Meet Sustainability Challenges of the Future (SI; direct to report page)

8/7 - Department of Labor, General Services Administration to centralize government benefits information on USA.gov; Benefits.gov will shutter in September 2024 (DOL)

8/7 - U.S. Department of Education Announces Schedule and New Process to Launch 2025-26 FAFSA Form (ED)

8/7 - EPA Scientists Update REal TIme Geospatial Data Viewer (RETIGO) Web Tool (EPA; direct to website)

8/7 - U.S. Department of the Treasury Releases New Data on American Consumer Energy Savings Under Inflation Reduction Act (Treas; direct to data page and report page)

8/8 - BLM announces next steps to implement the Public Lands Rule (BLM, with links to guidance docs)

8/8 - Justice Department Disrupts North Korean Remote IT Worker Fraud Schemes Through Charges and Arrest of Nashville Facilitator (DOJ)

8/8 - EPA Strengthens the Safer Choice Standard for Commercial and Household Cleaning Products (EPA; direct to info page)

8/8 - Fact Sheet on the Impact of the Universal Service Fund (FCC)

8/8 - NASA Mission Concludes After Years of Successful Asteroid Detections (NASA; see also, NEOWISE page)

8/8 - Recently completed geophysical survey will help protect critical infrastructure from geomagnetic storms and space weather (USGS)

8/8 - U.S. Postal Service Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Results (USPS; direct to financials page; see also, Postmaster General and CEO Louis DeJoy’s Remarks During the Aug. 8, 2024, Postal Service Board of Governors Meeting)

8/9 - U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Resolution of Sexual Harassment Compliance Review of San Diego Unified School District (ED)

8/9 - In two years of the PACT Act, VA has delivered benefits and health care to millions of toxic-exposed Veterans and their survivors (VA; direct to report; see also, WH factsheet)

8/9 - OMB Report to Congress on Telework, Real Property Utilization (WH/OMB; direct to report)

8/9 - Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Releases End of Year Report on Open-Source Software Security Initiative (WH/ONCD; direct to report)

Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.

None this week

8/5 - CDC Provided Oversight and Assistance, but Recipients Faced Challenges in Implementing a COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Strategy (HHS)

8/5 - Cross-referred Social Security Numbers (SSA)

8/5 - Business or Public Service? Insights into the Unique Laws and Regulations Applying to the Postal Service (USPS)

8/8 - Review of EXIM’s China and Transformational Exports Program (EXIM)

8/8 - NASA’s Management of Space Launch System Block 1B Development (NASA)

8/5 - Kids Online Safety Act (CRS)

8/6 - Wildlife Trafficking: Agencies Should Improve Efforts to Protect Human Rights in Overseas Activities (GAO; see also, House Natural Resources ranking member statement)

8/7 - Extreme Heat and Climate Change (CRS)

8/5 - Kamala Harris is now Democratic presidential nominee, will face off against Donald Trump this fall (via AP)

8/5 - Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules (via AP; see also, source document and DOJ statements)

8/6 - Where Tim Walz Stands on the Issues (via NYT)

8/6 - Decline in Veterans’ Homelessness Spurs Hopes for a Broader Solution (via NYT)

8/7 - 2015 Census Tract Identifier added to Data Tools page (Census)

8/7 - Top US health official acknowledges more federal money for utility help is needed for extreme heat (via AP; see also, LIHEAP website)

8/7 - Census categories misrepresent the ‘street race’ of Latinos, Afro Latinos, report says (via AP, with link to source document)

8/7 - Congress limps toward the end of a disappointing session, with just 78 laws to show (via GovExec)

8/7 - Health Officials Urge Doctors to Address IUD Insertion Pain (via NYT; see also, CDC recommendations page)

8/7 - Sept. 11 Judge to Decide Whether Guantánamo Plea Deals Are Valid (via NYT)

8/8 - Fact Sheet: Trump’s Project 2025 Shaped House Republicans’ Funding Bills (Congress; direct to factsheet)

8/8 - 15 states sue to block Biden’s effort to help migrants in US illegally get health coverage (via AP)

8/8 - Iran Targeting 2024 US Election (via Microsoft; direct to report; see also, 8/10 Trump campaign was hacked, campaign says via Politico)

8/9 - Childhood Vaccines Aren’t Just Saving Lives. They’re Saving Money. (via NYT, with link to source document)

8/9 - Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff, calling it ‘likely unlawful’ (via Politico, with link to source document; see also, referenced CDC publication)

8/9 - FDA rejects first psychedelic to treat PTSD, calling for more study (via WaPo; see also, Lykos announcement)

See full weekly list of Congressional hearings on congress.gov.

None this week