New and updated publications from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Net Neutrality: Back to the Future, CRS Legal Sidebar, May 30, 2017
East Asia’s Foreign Exchange Rate Policies, updated May 26, 2017
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Trends and Projections: Role of the Clean Power Plan and Other Factors, updated May 31, 2017
Respirable Crystalline Silica in the Workplace: New Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Standards, updated May 31, 2017
Cuba: U.S. Policy in the 115th Congress, May 26, 2017
Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations, updated June 1, 2017
Advanced Pilot Training (T-X) Program: Background and Issues for Congress, May 31, 2017
Grace Wickerson, the Federation of American Scientists’ Senior Manager, Climate and Health, today accepted a national recognition, the “Grist 50” award, bestowed by the editorial board of Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization.
The bootcamp brought more than two dozen next-generation open-source practitioners from across the United States to Washington DC, where they participated in interactive modules, group discussions, and hands-on sleuthing.
Fourteen teams from ten U.S. states have been selected as the Stage 2 awardees in the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a national competition that helps communities turn emerging research into ready-to-implement solutions.
The Fix Our Forests Act provides an opportunity to speed up the planning and implementation of wildfire risk reduction projects on federal lands while expanding collaborative tools to bring more partners into this vital work.