News Briefs: The U.S. chemical industry's Responsible Care program "has not encouraged pollution prevention or greater public access to information about toxic threats,"

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 171A-171A
Keyword(s):  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Responsible Care ◽  
The U.S

Varieties of Secrets and Secret Varieties: The Case of Biotechnology

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Wright ◽  
David A. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Biological Weapons Convention ◽  
The U.S

This article examines several trends that have combined to veil the new field of biotechnology in secrecy: the transformation of biotechnology from an essentially academic field characterized by strong norms of openness to a field with extensive corporate connections that have reached even to research in leading universities; the establishment of intellectual property rights for life-forms initiated by the landmark Supreme Court decision, Diamond vs. Chakrabarty; and the limiting of public access to information about the genetically altered organisms whose use in agriculture, industry, and medicine falls under government controls. The article also examines the effects of the U.S. biotechnology industry's demand for secrecy on the negotiations for a protocol to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, particularly the turn from requirements for transparency to protection of opacity with respect to biotechnology and other biological processes, equipment, and production.

scholarly journals Washington Hotline

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (10) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Gavin Baker
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Government Printing ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Government ◽  
The U.S

Congress’ Committee on House Administration this year began examining Title 44 of the U.S. Code, which is the authority for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and Government Publishing Office (GPO). This is an important opportunity for librarians to advocate for improvements to FDLP and public access to government information.FDLP was designed to ensure widespread and long-term public access to information produced by the federal government. The program is managed by GPO, formerly known as the Government Printing Office, a federal government agency that publishes information on behalf of all three branches of government.

Pollution prevention: The U.S. experience

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry M. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
The U.S

Book museums or virtual libraries

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Phillpot
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Verbal Information ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Virtual Library ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Virtual Libraries

Although its replacement has not yet been fully developed, the traditional book is likely to be largely superseded in the foreseeable future by electronic publishing. Libraries will become book museums; with librarians as curators; many other librarians will find themselves dealing with unlimited and unpackaged information rather than with pre-packaged artefacts, in a role which will include facilitating and championing public access to information. The electronic ‘virtual library’ will encompass visual as well as verbal information; it will subsume art libraries except insofar as art libraries will become museums, but both the ‘virtual library’ and art libraries will continue to require the skills and vision of art librarians. Finally, in the short term, and perhaps indefinitely, the ‘virtual library’ and the ‘book library’ may not diverge to the extent of parting company altogether: the latter may continue to function as one gateway providing access to the latter.

Long-Term Care Spending Relevant to U.S. Medicaid Expansion

2018 ◽  
pp. 46-70
Author(s):  
Mary Schmeida ◽  
Ramona Sue McNeal
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Financial Incentive ◽  
State Level ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Nursing Facility ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. population is living longer, placing a demand on long-term care services. In the U.S., Medicaid is the primary player in funding costly long-term care for the aged poor. As a major health reform law, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, gives financial incentive for states to expand Medicaid, transitioning long-term care services from facilities toward community care. Facing other funding obligations and recent recessions, not all states expanded their Medicaid long-term care program using the financial incentives. Some states continue to spend more dollars on traditional nursing facility care despite legislation. This chapter explores why some states spend more revenue on nursing facility long-term care despite enhanced federal funding to reform, while others are spending more on home and community-based services. Regression analysis and 50 state-level data is used.

Privacy and Public Access in the Light of E-Government

2010 ◽  
pp. 206-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Palm ◽  
Misse Wester
Keyword(s):  
Public Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Information Availability ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Individual Value

This chapter addresses the competing interests of privacy versus public access to information. The chapter explores the collective and individual value of privacy and public access in a manner that considers information at the macrosocial and macroethical level. By using Sweden as a case study, we exemplify the classic and irresolvable tension between issues of information availability and confidentiality, integrity, and privacy. Given that privacy and public access interests will constantly need to be rebalanced, we present the views of government officials due to their unique role in implementing this balance. We conclude with an analysis of the reasonableness of this conduct.

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