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Clean Energy
Policy Memo
Report
CELS Playbook: Clean Electricity for Local and State Governments

A cohesive strategy to achieve two goals: (1) deploy the clean energy and grid upgrades necessary to make energy affordable and combat climate change and (2) create governments that tangibly improve peoples’ lives.

03.31.26 | 21 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
What Happens When Unicorns Exist, But Don’t Exit: How the Reverse-Acquihires Trend Threatens the Future of Innovation

By structuring licensing-and-talent deals that replicate mergers while avoiding antitrust scrutiny, dominant technology firms are reshaping AI labor markets, venture financing, and the future of U.S. innovation.

03.30.26 | 5 min read
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Environment
day one project
Blog
2026 Is Year of the Female Farmer. We Spoke to Five Who Are Also Technologists.

For International Year of the Woman Farmer and International Women’s Month, we spoke to five women farmers in America about planting the next generation.

03.27.26 | 6 min read
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FAS
Blog
Gil on the Hill: You can’t spell funding without “fun”

It’s a busy time and you have things to do. Here are three things worth tracking in science policy as Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) wraps and we head into FY27.

03.26.26 | 3 min read
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FAS
Blog
Science & Technology Funding Uncertainty Impacts Regular People, Too

We’re asking the U.S. government to release holds on Congressionally-appropriated funding for scientific research, education, and critical activities at the earliest possible time.

03.24.26 | 3 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Protecting America’s S&T Ecosystem

It is in the interests of the United States to appropriately protect information that needs to be protected while maintaining our participation in new discoveries to maintain our competitive advantage.

03.12.26 | 36 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
Solving the Clean Energy Infrastructure Finance Rubik’s Cube

The question is not whether the capital exists (it does!), nor whether energy solutions are available (they are!), but whether we can align energy finance quickly enough to channel the right types of capital where and when it’s needed most.

03.12.26 | 53 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Who Governs Government AI? The Challenge of Federal Implementation

Our analysis of federal AI governance across administrations shows that divergent compliance procedures and uneven institutional capacity challenge the government’s ability to deploy AI in ways that uphold public trust.

03.11.26 | 12 min read
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Environment
Blog
Igniting Innovation: Progress and a Path Forward for Wildfire Policy

From California to New Jersey, wildfires are taking a toll—costing the United States up to $424 billion annually and displacing tens of thousands of people. Congress needs solutions.

03.11.26 | 3 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Your DNA, Your Data: Preventing Genetic Discrimination in the Growing Bioeconomy

To secure the U.S. bio-infrastructure, maintain global leadership in biotechnology, and safeguard American citizens from emerging threats to their privacy, the federal government must modernize its approach to human genetic and biological data.

03.05.26 | 8 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
Why Credit Access Makes or Breaks Clean Tech Adoption and What Policy Makers Can Do About It

To ensure an energy transition that brings broad based economic development, participation, and direct benefits to communities, we need federal policy that helps shape markets. Unfortunately, there is a large gap in understanding of how to leverage federal policy making to support access to capital and credit.

03.04.26 | 21 min read
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Emerging Technology
Press release
What exactly does “all lawful use” of AI mean? No one knows.

From use to testing to deployment, the scaffolding for responsible integration of AI into high-risk use cases is just not there.

03.03.26 | 2 min read
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