Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The article quotes a range of economists and other climate policy experts to the effect that subsidies and regulations are superior to carbon pricing because they can address equity issues, and that they can move investment in decarbonization technology more quickly than carbon pricing. Politics is central in policy.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- AP: Gov. Shapiro: Collapsed Stretch Of I-95 In Philadelphia To Reopen Within 2 Weeks -- Inside Climate News: Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Gov. Senate/House -- WKBN: PA U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

The EPA previously released their updated scientific integrity policy for public comment, and many groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists , weighed in to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a policy designed to protect scientists and their work from political interference. I need a moment to scream.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

As the market for emission-reducing technologies grows, there’s an increased incentive to invest in R&D. New technologies in turn drive more business, creating a “virtuous circle” of feedback between expanding markets and increased innovation. Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The second trend is technological. Internal combustion engines have seen significant, though incremental, technological improvements, which have been driven by tougher emission standards and fuel economy rules. But EV batteries are a new technology, with much more room for development. A third trend involves political economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2023

Congress can make scientific integrity policies enforceable Political appointees, senior officials, and other high-level personnel have a long history of violating scientific integrity at federal agencies, which makes the passage of a congressional bill to protect scientific integrity all the more pressing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 28, 2023

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has paved the way for this work following President Biden’s January 2021 presidential memorandum on strengthening scientific integrity. This doesn’t happen when federal scientists are censored, their data is manipulated for political purposes, or important work is delayed.

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Physics World

MARCH 11, 2022

As its clever title suggests, Tsu discusses not only written characters but also many characterful people from the Chinese worlds of computing, librarianship, politics, science and technology behind the transformation – most of whom are relatively unknown outside specialist circles.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 21, 2023

By Bob Berwyn While hundreds of scientists around the world are urgently advocating for a non-use agreement for atmospheric sun-dimming experiments , the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy may be looking in a different direction.

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Frontiers

JULY 12, 2023

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has launched a call for information to shape the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy, which in turns seeks to harness the benefits and mitigate the risks of AI. Frontiers is a leading research publisher and open science platform.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

Today, I’ll explain how we might advance political feasibility through climate policy, how that is connected to technological innovation, and how we must necessarily balance between all four of these goals (efficiency, equity, political feasibility, and technological innovation) in developing climate policy.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

The New York Times frames the choice by the IRA as a regrettable nod towards political constraints, stating that “experts” believe that carbon pricing is an essential component to addressing climate change. Both pieces I think are correct in identifying politics as a major constraint on the choices we make in climate policy.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Oct. Nominee Austin Davis Aims To Be ‘Strong Governing Partner’ For Shapiro -- Politics PA: F&M Poll: Fetterman Has 3-Point Edge On Dr. Oz; Shapiro Leads Opponent By 14 For Governor -- Politics PA: Marist Poll: Shapiro +13, Fetterman +10 -- U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

New AI tools allow cheap, rapid production and distribution of low-level disinformation at a massive scale, such as AI-powered accounts on social media that join your local community interest groups and appear like a normal user at first, but then learn to amplify political propaganda. can have real influence on elections.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 8, 2024

SRM has long generated concerns that, as a powerful lever on the Earth system, it could have unwanted side-effects and generate political and ethical risks, as well as lowering temperatures. But rules and norms about such technologies are patchy, and recent unauthorized experiments have set alarm bells ringing.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2022

I’m optimistic about the impacts of the IRA – it will drive investment in climate technology, both in research and deployment, that will produce transformational change. Investments today will have political benefits in the future. But the benefits of an investment-driven focus for climate policy go beyond the short term.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We hear a lot of encouraging rhetoric from our political leaders about wanting to preserve an existing international order based on the rule of law. If our governments are currently incapable of doing this, then civil society must step into the breach and take on an essential responsibility our political leaders are neglecting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Educators in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) inspire students daily by revealing what we’ve discovered about the world around us and what we can do next with the latest innovations. There are many nonpartisan strategies STEM educators can take to foster political awareness and action in their students.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things. The resulting economic growth also helps create a stronger political base for aggressive expansion of clean energy. Fourteen states now have net-zero emissions targets for the economy as a whole, and sixteen have zero-carbon targets for the grid.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Don’t fund technology development. Don’t issue patents for technologies. Don’t deploy the technologies. Even many researching the science or politics of geoengineering are deeply cautious about whether its deployment could ever be justified. Don’t permit outdoor experiments. The full open letter is available here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its updated scientific integrity policy for public comment which will have major consequences for how the EPA conducts and carries out scientific activities, and particularly for how it protects EPA scientists and their work from political interference.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Doing that, these conservatives write, would ensure that Americans have “abundant, affordable, and reliable energy; create good-paying jobs; support domestic manufacturing and technology leadership; and strengthen national security.” will see a substantial buildout of new nuclear power based on current technologies and economics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

They knew that the US technological lead would be temporary, urging that all US resources be devoted to creating a system of international control over nuclear weapons. Wartime utterly transformed the economic, political, and social fabric of the nation state, harnessing every possible resource to fuel the war effort.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- 2022 Priorities Gov. Data Paints Encouraging Scenario -- PennLive - John Baer: COVID And Politics In PA And Beyond - Where Time Stands Still -- TribLive: Republican Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2024

Penn State Technology Center Room 243 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Senate Democratic Policy Committee hearing on the environmental and public health impacts associated with the practice of spreading oil and gas drilling waste, known as brine, on Pennsylvania's roads for dust control and ice management.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Climate action is limited by political will (not technology) In this pivotal moment of history, where the imperative to avert the worst impacts of climate change is clear, the world stands at the cusp of a transformative shift toward a renewable energy paradigm. What’s lacking is political will.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Court used the “Major Question Doctrine,” which says that issues of “vast political and economic significance” must be decided by Congress. 27 billion for a green bank to deploy clean technology. $9 In June, the Supreme Court trimmed EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases. 9 billion in rebates to energy consumers. $2

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

Over the past few years, there has been a push in both Europe and the United States for a “Green New Deal” in which decarbonization efforts would be pushed by aggressive, direct government investments in clean energy technology and infrastructure. Download as PDF. The post Will public power advance decarbonization?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Second, the industry doesn’t invoke the major question doctrine, making it clear that it does not view such technology mandates as out of bounds for EPA in the future. Technological Viability. It argues that these technologies have great potential. Third, most of its comments are focused on timing issues.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In particular, should we be preparing to deploy climate geoengineering technologies? But it argues that the deep ethical, technical and political uncertainties and known risks surrounding geoengineering rule it out, at least for now. Instead we have to get serious about social, cultural and political transformation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of technological advancements, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a focal point in both personal and political discussions. Engineered to emulate human cognitive functions of learning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making, AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Governor’s Race -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: PA Governor’s Race Personifies America’s New Path On Abortion - Let States Decide -- TribLive: U.S. Senate, Governor Races -- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Will U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Fossil-fueled misdirections Despite the clarity science brings to the necessity of a fossil fuel phaseout, fossil fuel and narrow political interests are choosing to obfuscate and water down the text being negotiated for the final COP28 agreement. The core, unavoidable task remains making deep, direct cuts in fossil fuel use.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2024

China is the world’s largest producer of both CO2 emissions and green technology to cut those emissions. So, China plays an outsized and even paradoxical role in deploying clean energy technologies to address the climate crisis. It installed more solar panels last year than the U.S. China Clean Energy Research Center, or CERC.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A brighter future is hard to imagine when our leaders keep suggesting that improving the lives of others can only come at the expense of our own, that sharing new technologies is dangerous, and that trust in the good will of others is foolish, or a risk. Politics is also a blood sport, and their domestic adversaries will take advantage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Three months ago, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released the framework document calling for strengthening scientific integrity policies and practices.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

The report, which cited numerous examples of political appointees stifling agency research, was accompanied by a statement signed by more than 60 top scientists , including 20 Nobel laureates, denouncing the Bush administration’s misuse of science. Before the surveys, the extent of the problem was not clear. At NOAA, 86 percent are white.

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