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Update: Reader Tarpon has some excellent observations regarding EPA rules to oil spills, which someone should have been reading in the White House months ago: Yep, Obowma should have read the EPA oil spill emergency plan — Contain the spill at the well, time is of the utmost urgency. And they further state, ‘at all costs keep the oil off the beaches and out of the estuaries’.EPA and NOAA — First line of defense ‘fire booms; which the government was supposed to have on hand for just such an emergency — But had none, zip, zero, nada one fire boom.And...

Are You Ready? September is National Preparedness Month and a great opportunity for your household, business, or community to focus on preparedness. It is recommended that all Americans have an emergency supply kit and an emergency plan, and be informed about the different emergencies that can happen in their area and the appropriate responses.

Worst case scenario underlies US pandemic plan By RICARDO ALONSOZALDIVAR and EILEEN SULLIVAN,Associated Press Writers AP - 1 hour 16 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Two million dead. Hospitals overwhelmed. Schools closed. Swaths of empty seats at baseball stadiums and houses of worship. An economic recovery snuffed out. We're nowhere close to what government planners say would be a worst-case scenario: a global flu pandemic. But government leaders at all levels, and major employers, have spent nearly four years planning for one in series of exercises.

[..]America pays people to think thoughts that defy imagination, though it then often ignores their recommendations. In early 2001, experts with [FEMA] set out to rank the likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing America. According to the Houston Chronicle, they were a terrorist attack in New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a major hurricane in New Orleans.In this case, two out of three is bad.[..]"...A major earthquake or Category 5 hurricane in an urban area would stretch our current response and recovery capabilities to the breaking point."The date of this conference: Sept. 10, 2001.In the aftermath of the...

Sharon working with Shalom on new economic plan If the negotiations on establishing a new government take too long, they may decide to implement the plan within two weeks. Zeev Klein 6 Feb 03 16:52Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Minister of Finance Silvan Shalom are jointly involved in formulating the economic emergency plan proposed by senior Ministry of Finance officials.Sharon and Shalom will soon decide if the NIS 7-9 billion budget cut and other measures will be implemented by the outgoing government, or be postponed until the new government takes office. Sources in Jerusalem believe that if the negotiations on...

Feb. 3, 2003 Before building coalition, Likud plans to draw up 'national emergency plan' By GIL HOFFMAN Before formally negotiating formation of a new governing coalition, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party will meet with officials from all Knesset parties, including the Arab factions, to draw up a "national emergency plan." The plan is to form the basis of the next coalition's policy guidelines, Likud sources said today. "We're taking a different approach to coalition building than has been used in the past," a senior Likud source close to Sharon said. "It's important to us to reach agreement with every...