The White House released a series of reports documenting 38 federal agencies' vulnerabilities to climate change and their plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, save energy, cut waste and save taxpayer dollars.
Gamesmanship over the federal budget increases our vulnerability — to TB and to the whole spectrum of resistant disease organisms.
The smuggling operation also showed what federal officials called a vulnerability in the nation's airline security system.
West Virginia, for example, falls into the bottom third of vulnerability for federal defense spending as a percentage of state GDP, and in the top third for nondefense spending.
One undercover federal study underscored the vulnerability last year by using off-the-shelf materials to forge documents that were then used to get driver's licenses in seven states and the District of Columbia.
The federal suit highlights the vulnerability of daily fantasy sites that operate under a law that was written to protect a different kind of activity, said Marc Edelman, a sports law professor at Barry University's law school in Orlando, Fla. "There is no doubt that Langone is not the most sympathetic of plaintiffs," he wrote in an e-mail.
He's also used his position as chairman of the House spending panel on Commerce, Justice, and Science-which funds NASA, NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as well as the Justice and Commerce departments-to berate federal agencies on their vulnerability to cyberterrorism.
Expeditions in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, for instance, revealed translations of American newspaper articles that discussed security vulnerabilities in federal government buildings.
Tom Ridge, the director of homeland security, is opening a national coordination center in a former naval complex here that will analyze and share intelligence about threats and vulnerabilities with federal agencies.
B5 Fighting Terror HOMELAND SECURITY -- Tom Ridge, the director of homeland security, is opening a "national coordination center" in a former naval complex in Washington that will analyze and share intelligence about threats and vulnerabilities with federal agencies as well as coordinate the response of those agencies to a terror attack.
