Deepwater Horizon: The Fate of the Oil, and More from CRS
Noteworthy new products of the Congressional Research Service include the following reports (all pdf).
“The EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement and Its Implications for the United States,” December 17, 2010.
“Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Fate of the Oil,” December 16, 2010.
“Keeping America’s Pipelines Safe and Secure: Key Issues for Congress,” December 13, 2010.
“American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat,” updated December 7, 2010.
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.