Climate Change and Existing Law, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future, updated August 20, 2014
The “Militarization” of Law Enforcement and the Department of Defense’s “1033 Program”, CRS Insights, August 20, 2014
China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States, updated August 21, 2014
Clean Coal Loan Guarantees and Tax Incentives: Issues in Brief, August 19, 2014
January saw us watching whether the government would fund science. February has been about how that funding will be distributed, regulated, and contested.
This rule gives agencies significantly more authority over certain career policy roles. Whether that authority improves accountability or creates new risks depends almost entirely on how agencies interrupt and apply it.
Our environmental system was built for 1970s-era pollution control, but today it needs stable, integrated, multi-level governance that can make tradeoffs, share and use evidence, and deliver infrastructure while demonstrating that improved trust and participation are essential to future progress.
Durable and legitimate climate action requires a government capable of clearly weighting, explaining, and managing cost tradeoffs to the widest away of audiences, which in turn requires strong technocratic competency.