A Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has been appointed to a National Academy
of Sciences panel on fighting terrorism.
Representative James Greenwood (R-PA), chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced that subcommittee staffers have discovered that the shredding of Enron documents was carried out by a number of people at accounting firm Arthur Andersen.
The Bureau of Land Management has announced that allowing the drilling of natural gas wells in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument will have insignificant environmental impact.
A report by People's Counsel, an advocacy organization for residential consumers regarding energy issues, states that electricity deregulation in the state of Maryland has not produced new competition since it was introduced 18 months ago.
Although set to reopen this week, an inspection of the Hart Senate Office Building found a bag of personal protective suits and gloves left behind above the ceiling panels, delaying the opening indefinitely.
Thermal bridging is a characteristic of some materials, such as steel studs, to transmit temperature differences through a wall assembly, short-circuiting the insulation that abuts it. The Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB) uncovered such a thermal bridging problem in the design of Melrose Commons, a development of attached, three-family townhouses in the Bronx, New York.
In its investigation of the Enron collapse, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has begun questioning David Duncan, the former audit partner from accounting firm Arthur Andersen who handled the Enron account.
