http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/05-1120
5-4 Supreme Court decision that agreed that the state and other private organizations had standing to sue the EPA for not regulating green house gas emissions from new motor vehicles and that such regulation must be based on the contribution to climate change of the gas emissions and not EPA policy preferences. From Findlaw.com.
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nepccr/index.html
Describes the conditions of 28 estuaries, including the Virginia, North Carolina coastal area, covered in the National Estuary Program. Assigns a fair rating to the estuaries despite great population pressure. From the Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/states/depression.pdf
Reports that nearly 9% of youths and 7.5% of adults experienced at least one major depressive episode in the 2004-2005 period. From the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2007/EMarty_20070608_NoEmbargo.pdf
Widely publicized report criticizing the U.S. government for setting up secret prisons in Poland and Rumania and for measures used to interrogate terrorism suspects. From the Council of Europe.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11885.html
Calls for improvement in system by which the Veterans Department determines the degree of disability suffered during military service. From the Institute of Medicine.
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86189.pdf
Reports on progress in achieving greater foreign investment in each of the countries. Credits changes in Japanese laws and regulations with increasing foreign investment in the Japanese economy by 94% since 2001. From the State Department.
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_state/2007/pdf/gsp0607.pdf
Reports that gross domestic product grew in every state in 2006 except Michigan. Virginia had the 8th highest per capital GDP among the states at $41,702. From the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/studies/2007482.pdf
Attempts to compare the stringency of state educational proficiency standards by mapping them to a national standard, the National Assessment of Educational Progress measures. Finds a strong negative correlation between the proportion of students meeting the states’ proficiency standards and the NAEP score equivalents to those standards. From the National Center for Educational Statistics.