New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following.
Rio+20: The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, June 2012, June 18, 2012
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB): A Legal Analysis, June 7, 2012 (published June 20)
Job Creation in the Manufacturing Revival, June 20, 2012
Double-Dip Recession: Previous Experience and Current Prospect, June 19, 2012
Morocco: Current Issues, June 20, 2012
Soft law was never meant to be a permanent solution. Treating it as one, and letting the sandcastle stand in for the skyscraper indefinitely, is how we end up with a decade of voluntary commitments and no enforceable accountability to show for it.
FAS has partnered with ICLEI USA to launch the CRI Local Advisory Council.
We sat down with Dr. Max Moritz and Chief Rob Hazard to discuss how communities use time, money, and data to reduce the risk that wildfires pose.
The Colorado Future Systems Policy Sprint is FAS’s first state-level policy sprint. Policy sprints are key incubators for “policy entrepreneurship,” FAS’s method for equipping individuals with strong ideas with the technical assistance to develop policy.