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EPA wants to move mostly to the cloud by 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to move most of its IT enterprise to a cloud environment. The EPA's national computing center is in the process of building a secure hybrid cloud, and it's just awarded a three-year, $15 million contract to build hosting and virtualization services. The award was made under the General Services Administration's Infrastructure as a Service blanket purchase agreement. EPA wants to move 80 percent of its computing environment to the cloud by 2015.
Tags: Cloud First Report , EPA , technology ,
What to do about the growing bedbug problem
Every other day, it seems, there's another report on TV about the rising epidemic of bedbugs.
Tags: bedbugs , WTOP Talkback , EPA , Nathan Hager
Feds fail to fork over millions in fees
The federal government, which owns nearly 20 percent of D.C., refuses to pay a new fee to clean up stormwater runoff, one that came about in response to unfunded EPA mandates.
Tags: WASA , Mark Segraves , Water and Sewer Authority , National Association of Clean Water Agencies , Nathan Gardner-Andrews , Impervious Area Charge , Treasury Department , water bills , EPA , George Hawkins , Susan Poling , stormwater discharge , stormwater runoff , Potomac River , Anacostia River , Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay problems still persist
Activism about cleaning up the environment since the first Earth Day has diminished, says one noted bay expert.
Tags: Chesapeake Bay , Chesapeake Bay Foundation , Chesapeake Bay Program , Clean Water Act , Kent Mountford , Earth Day , EPA , Tom Horton , Pollution , population growth , urbanization , development
3 Federal Agencies: Economic Growth Through ARRA
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , ARRA , Senate Banking Committee , Ray Lahood , Shaun Donovan , Lisa Jackson , Department of Transportation , Department of Housing and Urban Development , EPA
EPA: Md. fertilizer law to help bay cleanup
A federal Environmental Protection Agency official says a new Maryland law limiting lawn fertilizer use will help the state meet its Chesapeake Bay restoration goals.
Tags: Chesapeake Bay , nitrogen , phosphorous , Martin O'Malley , Shawn Garvin ,
Md. approves use of deer birth control
Maryland has become the first state to approve the use of Gonacon, a deer birth control product, but the state's director of wildlife said Friday he can't imagine it ever being used in what he termed the open landscape.
Tags: deer , Gonacon , Deer birth control , Paul Peditto , Maryland Wildlife and Heritage Service , U.S. Department of Agriculture ,
Report: Water in D.C., Bethesda contains dangerous chemical
A report from the Environmental Working Group is raising eyebrows in homes across the region.
Tags: Environmental Working Group , D.C. Water and Sewer Authority , Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission , hexavalent chromium , chromium-6 , Jane Houlihan , Hank Silverberg
Fort Detrick signs cleanup agreement with EPA
Fort Detrick signed an agreement Friday with the Department of Defense and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency outlining how to go about cleaning up Area B's groundwater contamination.
Tags: Fort Detrick , Department of Defense , Ben Cardin , Federal Facilities Agreement
$100k offered for proof of impropriety in Detrick studies
An organization trying to connect activities at Fort Detrick to cancer cases in the immediate area of the Army post is offering a reward to anyone who can prove tests conducted were done improperly.
Tags: Fort Detrick , cancer , Kristen Renee Foundation , Frederick News-Post
