Circle of Blue
MAY 25, 2023
In Iowa, a Tale of Politics, Power, and Contaminated Water Lawmakers silence Chris Jones, a prominent University of Iowa water quality researcher. The political pressure came with a personal connection: Sen. Jones warned in his blog that strategies to reduce harmful run-off of farm fertilizers and other nutrients were not effective.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
If elimination is not politically feasible, they recommended canceling the Sentinel ICBM replacement program and extending the life of the current Minuteman ICBMs for at least another 20 years. Subsequent defense secretaries Chuck Hagel, who served from 2015 to 2017, and Gen.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are 42% of electricity.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 8, 2022
Let’s think about that unconscionable prohibition, which only began to be lifted in 2019. For gun violence, however, there is federal data going back only to 2015 with sporadic information from earlier years. And virtually no federal funding for research into gun violence was available for many years prior to 2019.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions. Photo: Pool/Getty Images) The history of that lie bears retelling.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
In 2020, we presented the results of our 2018 survey to a team at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigating scientific integrity violations and political interference at public health agencies. Federal scientists face similar types of scenarios at their jobs.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.
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