Sat.Sep 09, 2017 - Fri.Sep 15, 2017

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SEC Publishes New Guidance on Investment Adviser Advertising

The Energy Law Blog

The SEC published new guidance on RIA advertising yesterday in a National Exam Program Risk Alert dated September 14, 2017 ( [link] ). The Risk Alert is entitled “The Most Frequent Advertising Rule Compliance Issues Identified in OCIE Examinations of Investment Advisers.” This is particularly important because the SEC is focusing on marketing materials in its latest exam cycle.

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The data gap problem

Science Blogs

The data gap problem. “The monitoring of the atmosphere, of the surface of the Earth, of what’s going on in the ocean and under the ice — all of that is overwhelmingly funded by the federal government.”. — Former Obama science adviser John Holdren. The other day a friend of mine who works in Beijing as a foreign correspondent suggested that of all the acts of stupidity committed by Donald Trump since assuming office, the thing that bothers him the least is the decision to withdraw from the Paris

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The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters

Science Blogs

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters. The last one of these was in mid-June , so we're picking up all the summer stories of scientific mayhem in the Trump era. The last couple of months have seemed especially apocalyptic, with Nazis marching in the streets and nuclear war suddenly not so distant a possibility.