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Emerging Technology
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Allies or Adversaries? Science Diplomacy’s Calibration in the President’s Budget Request

…for clean energy technologies, such as electric vehicles and battery storage, that the budget simultaneously eliminates funding for, even as it expands support for coal and fossil fuel production. Department…

04.09.26 | 6 min read
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Clean Energy
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DOE’s FY27 Budget Request: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

…Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E): Funding for this office is being redirected away from clean energy and towards AI, critical materials, and fusion fuels. Electric vehicle research and…

04.09.26 | 11 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
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A People-centered, Power-conscious Regulatory Democracy Balancing Distributive Justice and Delivery Efficacy

…housing, cheap clean energy, etc.) serve that legitimizing function after the fact. Significantly, Klein and Thompson’s book singles out public participation in the policymaking process as emblematic of the broader…

04.08.26 | 50 min read
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Environment
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Hot Takes: What the FY27 Presidential Budget Request Means for Climate and Energy

…back clean energy and environmental justice investments from what this administration terms the Biden-era “Green New Scam”. As with FY26, the request targets climate, energy, and environmental programs with demonstrated…

04.07.26 | 11 min read
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Government Capacity
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Buzzwords like ‘Abundance’ and ‘Affordability’ are out. Learning policy lessons from the global community is in.

…marketable, and play to a big audience (or the right political network) but they lack technical substance and specificity. Abundance has been applied to everything from large-scale clean energy supply…

04.02.26 | 9 min read
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