This week in #scipol: carbon emissions increase, science denialism in India and Italy, shutdown continues, future plans for Austin and Lamar Smith, a plan to clean up the ocean, Voyager 1 answers questions about dark matter, and more!
Weekly Digest — November 13-19, 2018
This week in #scipol: rhinos, tigers, and oysters, open access publishing, Eddie Bernice Johnson and Nancy Pelosi plan for action on climate change, a national backup for GPS, and more!
Weekly Digest — September 25-October 1, 2018
So much this week in #scipol! The Trump administration asserts the reality of climate change, mosquitoes can be eliminated, information on the midterms, grizzlys, frogs, humanized mice, and more!!
Weekly Digest — June 6-July 2, 2018
This month in #scipol: the southwest deals with drought, NASA's Mars Curiosity announced discoveries, the EPA's transparency rule, government spending to address climate change, new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reports, non-medical vaccine exemptions and more.
Weekly Digest — March 5-18, 2018
Lots of news in conservation this week: Bears Ears shrunk for oil, phytoplankton declining, regenerative farming gains status, ban on big game trophy importation lifted; new rules limit the EPA; new CDC director considered; & more!
Weekly Digest — January 22-28, 2018
This week: A new study out in Science shows that coral reefs with plastic pollution suffer higher disease risks. After the announcement of new import taxes on solar panels, solar companies plan for increased production costs. AK Senator Lisa Murkowski requests exemption from offshore drilling in environmentally-sensitive zones of Alaska. The UCS sues the EPA for its ban on EPA-funded board members. Read on for more about public health in Texas and mathematicians helping to fix gerrymandering in PA.
Weekly Digest — January 15-21, 2018
Lots in the news this week about how many different federal science advisory boards are not meeting. Researchers face challenges in China and developing countries; in India, the education minister questions the validity of evolutionary theory. Read on for more news in vaccines, drug development, energy in Texas, and happenings at the EPA.
Weekly Digest — November 27-December 3, 2017
This week in #scipol: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments will be reduced, mining companies no longer financially responsible for future clean-up preparations, debate continues on what is a "water of the United States" (and what should be protected), graduate students worry about tax hikes, Lamar Smith attacks socio-behavioral research at the NSF, and more.
Weekly Digest — October 30 – November 5, 2017
This week: US releases National Climate Assessment, UN releases annual emissions report, ongoing change at the EPA brings more industry representatives in, multiple bills in the house threaten the Endangered Species Act, proposed tax reform worries graduate students, a waste-free UT, and more
Weekly Digest — October 23-29, 2017
This week: EPA loosens grip on chemical regulation, Bears Ears will be reduced, success and failure at the WHO, local elections in Austin, personal stories of rising seas and warming in the USA, opportunities for mentorship training at the UCS and AAAS, and more...
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