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How Bad Ballot Design Can Impact Election Outcomes—And What We Can Do 

Union of Concerned Scientists

After clicking around, I found one on a non-government site and reviewed the list of contests and ballot measures. Nationally, since 2004, the evidence shows that the number of over- and undervotes averages about one percent.While that sounds low, a big problem is that certain districts have higher residual vote rates than others.

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Reducing Gun Violence: What Role for the CDC?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Even though gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children in the United States, overtaking car accidents in 2020, the use of federal funding has been prohibited to investigate the role of gun violence or possible means of reducing death and injuries from guns. Cars vs. guns. graphic: cdc.gov.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5 billion in 2016 to $11.6

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Top Three Findings from the Latest UCS Survey of Federal Scientists

Union of Concerned Scientists

This is our tenth version of the survey since 2004 and, to our surprise and delight, while challenges remain, the widespread consensus is that scientists in the federal government feel more positive about their workplaces now than they have at any other time we have administered the survey.

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What I Told Congress: To Protect the Nation’s Health, We Need Strong Scientific Integrity Policies

Union of Concerned Scientists

The hearing also featured testimony from staff at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) which recently issued a report showing the deficiencies in policies and procedures for ensuring scientific integrity at public health agencies. A history of interference in federal science. “These actions can have enormous consequences.

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Fifth Circuit to Hold Oral Argument in Sojitz v. UNOCAL in April 2020

The Energy Law Blog

2003) (“the regulations govern the parties’ joint and several liabilities vis-à-vis the Government not amongst themselves”) and Total E&P USA, Inc. 2018) (“parties will always be jointly and severally liable to the government for the cost of decommissioning, no matter what their contract provides”). Parker Drilling Co. ,

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. 4, 2020); California v. United States , No. 18-36082 (9th Cir.

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