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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

The Trump administration proposed steep cuts across the government in its president’s budget request, especially to scientific and environmental programs. billion for the National Institute of Agriculture, including $700 million for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, which represents a $265 million increase over FY 2021 levels.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. In 2021 the world emitted 36.4

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

ESA

Between 2019 and 2021, total CO2 emissions from outside China fell by 570 million tons, but China’s emissions grew by 750 million tons and drove annual emissions to their highest level ever in 2021, according to the International Energy Agency. Governments need to help people cut consumption. Capturing carbon is a must.

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Identifying the Means to an End: The Role of the Social Cost of Carbon

Arnold Porter

March 8, 2021).]] The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. CV 17-80-BLG-SPW, 2021 WL 363955 (D.

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Policy News: May 23, 2022

ESA

In response to a question from a BIO AC member, an NSF representative shared that the federal government is considering how to improve how it collects gender demographics at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy level. Biden signed an executive order in September 2021 expanding the size of the PCAST to 32 members from 26.

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