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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since the subcommittee was created, I have admired its strong commitment to uncovering violations of scientific integrity related to the pandemic response; for instance, they documented more than 80 instances of political interference by the Trump administration. The pandemic showed why scientific integrity matters.

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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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Ask a Scientist: New UCS Federal Scientist Survey Shows Real Progress

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to the results of a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) survey released late last month, federal scientists are now working in a more supportive environment than any other time since UCS began administering such surveys back in 2004. Over the next four years, 15,000 more scientists added their names in support.

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Ask a Scientist: Building on Advances in Scientific Integrity

Union of Concerned Scientists

Two decades after the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) redefined the term “scientific integrity,” the White House issued its first-ever scientific integrity policy in May as a model for all government agencies and departments to protect federal scientists from political interference. Are any states particularly good?

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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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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. If we charged people $2 per mile, we could cover the whole government budget, social security and Medicaid included. trillion miles in 2022. (If

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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. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.