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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Climate—and a Cautionary Tale of Three New Hampshire Commissioners

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. Building an all-of-government approach to transform New Hampshire from climate laggard to climate leader might start with a simple phone call.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2013, the US Geological Survey used the survey results to help improve its social media policy to better ensure scientifically accurate agency communications. Federal scientists face similar types of scenarios at their jobs.

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Reducing Gun Violence: What Role for the CDC?

Union of Concerned Scientists

That research is broad and heavily funded by the federal government, totaling more than $660 million in 2020 grants to the states alone. For gun violence, however, there is federal data going back only to 2015 with sporadic information from earlier years. We have learned a lot about epidemics in the past two years.

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Will the Biden Administration's Trillion Dollar Investment in Infrastructure Unlock the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities?

Environmental and Urban Economics

Kahn, 2013. Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Kahn, 2015. Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? government creating a business friendly environment and a safe, green, clean city, 4. Here are a few examples; Siqi Zheng & Matthew E. Kahn, Matthew E.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science.