Keystone XL Pipeline Legal Issues, and More from CRS
Some noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf):
Legal Issues Associated with the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, December 16, 2011
Contemporary Developments in Presidential Elections, January 9, 2012
“Surge Recovery” and Next Steps in the War in Afghanistan: In Brief, January 6, 2011
U.S. Assistance Programs in China, January 6, 2012
Border Security: Immigration Enforcement Between Ports of Entry, January 6, 2011
U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems, January 3, 2011
Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV): Background and Issues for Congress, January 3, 2012
Kim Jong-il’s Death: Implications for North Korea’s Stability and U.S. Policy, December 22, 2011
If carbon markets are going to play a meaningful role — whether as engines of transition finance, as instruments of accurate pricing across heterogeneous climate interventions, or both — they need the infrastructure and standards that any serious market requires.
Good information sources, like collections, must be available and maintained if companies are going to successfully implement the vision of AI for science expressed by their marketing and executives.
Let’s see what rules we can rewrite and beliefs we can reset: a few digital service sacred cows are long overdue to be put out to pasture.
Nestled in the cuts and investments of interest to the S&T community is a more complex story of how the administration is approaching the practice of science diplomacy.