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What Makes the College-Educated More Likely to Vote?

Union of Concerned Scientists

A study investigating how much education affects voting rates from 1950 to 2004 found that this positive correlation has increased since 1980. College attendance and areas of study influence student voting rates Whether the effect of a college degree on political participation is direct or indirect is debated among sociologists.

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New UCS Survey Asks Federal Scientists: How are You Faring in the Biden Administration?

Union of Concerned Scientists

This current effort is our tenth survey since 2004 and every iteration has provided a wealth of data and information. In 2012, the chief scientist of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responded to our survey’s findings in a blog post , committing to pursuing, monitoring, and enhancing the FDA’s scientific integrity policies.

2018 206
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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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China’s premier particle collider set for major upgrade

Physics World

The proposal to build the BEPC, which lies in the west of Beijing, was approved in the early 1980s when China emerged from the Cultural Revolution – a nationwide political movement that had disrupted research and education. Facing competition from similar colliders elsewhere in the world, IHEP began an upgrade of the BEPC in 2004.

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At Peak of Its Wealth and Influence, Arizona’s Desert Civilization Confronts A Reckoning Over Water

Circle of Blue

The second path is more perilous, strewn with impediments of politics, civic disagreement, financing, litigation, and inaction that yields a catastrophe where everything goes wrong. . Between 2012 and 2017 almost 180 Pinal farms went out of business, a nearly 20 percent reduction. Between 2012 and 2017, according to the U.S.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019).

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Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation

Corp Watch

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004). billion methanol production complex under construction in St.

2019 52