This page is an attempt to provide current awareness of federal government reports and activities. The page will be updated weekly to provide links to important, newsworthy, or interesting material published during the previous week. The goal is to keep the links to a manageable number for readers, not to be a comprehensive listing. All links are captured in the Internet Archive if possible, and a list of earlier roundups is available.
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7/5 - My Community Explorer Tool Update (Census; direct to website)
7/5 - Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against the State of Arizona Over Restrictive Voter Registration Requirements (DOJ; see also, AAG remarks)
7/5 - COVID-19 was third leading cause of death in the United States in both 2020 and 2021 (NIH; direct to article page)
7/6 - Education Department Releases Proposed Regulations to Expand and Improve Targeted Relief Programs (ED; direct to NPRM and fact sheet)
7/6 - EIA releases [for first time] state-level household energy characteristics data from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (EIA; direct to data tables)
7/6 - More than 80 Percent of U.S. Public Schools Report Pandemic Has Negatively Impacted Student Behavior and Socio-Emotional Development (NCES; direct to data page)
7/7 - CFPB Issues Advisory to Protect Privacy When Companies Compile Personal Data (CFPB; direct to advisory)
7/7 - DOE Awards $14 Million to Improve Climate Change Predictions (DOE; direct to awards list)
7/7 - Biden-Harris Administration Takes Step Forward to Combat Climate Change, Announces Proposed Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Framework (DOT; direct to NPRM)
7/7 - Library to Host Biannual Copyright Public Modernization Committee Meeting on July 28 (LOC)
7/7 - NASA Updates Coverage for Webb Telescope’s First Images Reveal (NASA)
7/7 - Fact Sheet: Framework for International Engagement on Digital Assets (Treas)
7/8 - CBP Releases Findings of Investigation of Horse Patrol Activity in Del Rio, Texas (CBP; direct to report; see also, House Homeland Security chair statement)
7/8 - DOT Announces First-Ever Bill of Rights for Passengers with Disabilities, Calls on Airlines to Seat Families Together Free of Charge (DOT; direct to Bill of Rights page)
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
7/6 - Review of the USPP’s Communications Recording System in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area (DOI)
7/6 - Safeguarding PII Collected in VBA Education Compliance Surveys (VA)
7/7 - DHS Could Do More to Address the Threats of Domestic Terrorism (DHS)
7/7 - The EPA Was Not Transparent About Changes Made to a Long-Chain PFAS Rule After Administrator Signature (EPA; see also, 7/28/20 request for OIG investigation and related documents, via Senator Carper)
7/8 - The Office of Intelligence and Analysis Needs to Improve its Open Source Intelligence Reporting Process (DHS)
7/5 - Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Launches National Effort to Support Student Success (WH; direct to website)
7/5 - What Went on in the Trump EPA? Announcing a New FOIA Archive (via EDGI; direct to website)
7/5 - Five ways to improve FOIA estimated completion dates (via Federal News Network)
7/5 - The Supreme Court is the most conservative in 90 years (via NPR)
7/6 - Final report: Science Advisory Board (SAB) Consideration of the Scientific and Technical Basis of the EPA and Department of the Army’s Proposed Rule titled “Revised Definition of Waters of the United States” (EPA SAB)
7/6 - Web Archiving and Government Information (via PEGI)
7/6 - SCOTUS Justices ‘Prayed With’ Her — Then Cited Her Bosses to End Roe (via Rolling Stone, with link to source document)
7/7 - Chairman Neal Requests Immediate Investigation into the Exploitation of IRS by Trump Appointee (Congress)
7/8 - Executive Order on Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services (WH)
