Tag: science policy
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June 11, 2009 03:43 PM EDT --
UPDATED: The House has now voted 307-97 to pass the bill and send it on to President Obama to sign, which he as indicated he plans to do. This was a clear bipartisan measure.
Yesterday . . .
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November 25, 2009 10:09 AM EST --
I first predicted this about 10 days ago, but President Obama has now officially confirmed that he will be attending the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen. He will attend on December 9th, the . . .
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April 04, 2009 03:04 PM EDT --
Last week the USEPA released a " Strategic Plan for Evaluating the Toxicity of Chemicals ," which departs from "the traditional risk assessment approach that relies heavily on data . . .
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December 07, 2009 03:16 PM EST --
Several outlets are sources of information on the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference running from December 7 to December 18, 2009 in Copenhagen.
The official COP15 web site has continuous . . .
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May 12, 2007 09:04 AM EDT --
The Federation of American Scientists has added a fifth case study to our Dual-Use Research education series. This new case study focuses on the work of Dr. Stuart Levy of Tufts University School of Medicine . . .
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February 09, 2009 02:36 PM EST --
A doctor in the UK "changed and misreported results" in his research, "creating the appearance of a possible link" between the MMR vaccine and autism, according to an investigation . . .
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July 24, 2009 06:55 PM EDT --
I’ll start by highly recommending this book. Especially to scientists or those interested in science. As suggested by the title – Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy . . .
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October 09, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
To illustrate the findings of their model, MIT researchers created a pair of 'roulette wheels.' This wheel depicts their estimate of the range of probability of potential global temperature change . . .
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February 05, 2009 03:32 PM EST --
Scientists have a love/hate relationship with policy makers. We want to "do our science" but not necessarily get all into the whole political rangling thing. On the other hand, it displeases . . .
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February 16, 2009 01:49 PM EST --
This past week, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore urged scientists to exert their influence on global climate change. In short, he said that scientists must play a more active role in how their science . . .
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March 19, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
An underlying theme of my posts is how science meets policy. In a recent commentary , UK scientist and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and special adviser to UN Secretary General . . .
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November 18, 2009 01:17 PM EST --
As I noted yesterday , the House held a hearing on November 17th, 2009 to discuss prioritization of chemicals for control in the United States. This is part of the process for introducing a reform . . .
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December 02, 2009 04:51 PM EST --
As I noted yesterday, today there is a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing entitled " Oversight Hearing on the Federal Toxic Substances Control Act .” As I write this the hearing . . .
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September 07, 2007 03:36 PM EDT --
Improving Our Understanding of Mesopotamian Civilization Through Learning Technology.
watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlqafevXOWY
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February 22, 2009 09:06 AM EST --
A week or so ago I posted some of the new funding for science added to the stimulus package passed by Congress . Now the immediate past director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Elias . . .
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February 27, 2009 01:57 PM EST --
A while back I wrote a piece from a book by Roger A. Pielke, Jr. called The Honest Broker . In my article I mentioned the four idealized roles of scientists in Pielke's view: The Pure Scientist, . . .
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June 21, 2009 07:04 AM EDT --
EPA sources report that the Obama administration and EPA leadership are shutting down EPA's Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP). ChAMP was initiated as a mechanism to implement the Montebello . . .
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June 23, 2009 06:57 AM EDT --
As previously noted , the Obama EPA suddenly suspended its ChAMP program last week. ChAMP was the Agency's mechanism for evaluating the data received during the voluntary HPV Challenge, in which industry . . .
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April 19, 2009 12:39 PM EDT --
Margot Wallström is European Commission vice-president and the force behind the development and passage of the European Union's Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) regulation. . . .
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July 11, 2007 10:40 PM EDT --
FAS Statement on Recent Testimony by Surgeon General Carmona
The Federation of American Scientists is profoundly disturbed by the testimony of former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona at the July 10th . . .
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