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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

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2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy forms Interagency Task Force on Scientific Integrity. . There is $180 billion pegged overall in the plan for investment in research and development and “technologies of the future.”.

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

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This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) ( S. Global Change Research Program.

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ESA Policy News: February 20, 2023

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Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) will be the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research and Biotechnology. Mike Collins (R-GA) will chair the Research and Technology Subcommittee and Rep. House Agriculture Committee: Ranking Member David Scott (D-GA) announced the Democratic leadership of the committee. Freshman Rep.

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ESA Policy News: January 23, 2023

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Among other US-China issues, the committee is expected to address US-China science and technology collaboration and research security. The agency first revised management plans to protect sage grouse habitat and avoid an Endangered Species Act listing for the bird in 2015 during the Obama administration.

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