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Cancer Risk Is Still There, Even If the Data Isn’t

After a year-long delay, this April, EPA released the latest air toxics data, which only included raw air data downloads. This year, for the first time in nearly 25 years, the air toxics data did not include cancer risk estimates. 

08.17.26 | 6 min read
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Global Risk
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Debris-Creating Anti-Satellite Tests Score Low on Strategic and Military Benefits

In the current environment of declining trust and magnifying strategic competition, banning debris-creating tests is a concrete step towards stability that favors interests of all states seeking to conduct space activities.

08.13.26 | 10 min read
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State & Local Innovation
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How We Found Eight Data Center Community Benefit Agreements and Why It Matters

Often negotiations between data center developers and local officials are conducted behind closed doors, protected by NDAs. How can we have an informed debate, when we don’t know what’s on the table? 

08.11.26 | 5 min read
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Government Capacity
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How Do We Track Terminations of Federal Data?

As federal data policy nerds, the question we get asked all the time is “How much data has the current administration terminated?”

08.10.26 | 11 min read
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Climate & Energy
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How Methane Emissions Events Impact Air Quality and Put Human Health at Risk

99% of the natural gas sampled near the point of extraction across the country contains hazardous air pollutants harmful to health.

07.30.26 | 11 min read
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Climate & Energy
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Ongoing DOE Staff Shortages Limit Trump Energy Priorities

Occupations with skills essential to making and managing awards were among the hardest hit. As a result, many energy innovation programs ground to a halt in 2025.

07.28.26 | 9 min read
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Emerging Technology
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International Collaboration to Strengthen Domestic Critical Minerals Efforts

As Congress considers broader packages to advance critical minerals production and supply chain resilience, science diplomacy vehicles must be part of that conversation, not as an afterthought, but as an intentional and foundational pillar of any strategy.

07.24.26 | 5 min read
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Government Capacity
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The Science of Moonshots: Using Evidence to Design Transformative Initiatives

We’ve identified the key ingredients of successful moonshots that meet the moment, and developed recommendations about what future efforts can and should look like. 

07.20.26 | 9 min read
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Government Capacity
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Algae as Analogy in an Age of Disruption and Transition Complexity

Complex systems – from ecological to political to socio-technical – rarely change the way we expect.

07.20.26 | 8 min read
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Government Capacity
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Revealing the Hidden Data Supporting Alzheimer’s Patients with the Federal Data Field Guide

Federal data is a diverse ecosystem with well over 500,000 datasets – including those tackling Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD).

07.17.26 | 5 min read
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FAS
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Scaling Team Science is the Important Experiment We Need

X-Labs seek to expand on what FROs have shown is possible: the generation of foundational infrastructure for entire new fields of research science.

07.14.26 | 6 min read
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Climate & Energy
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To scale up climate solutions, local governments need to accelerate system changes

Cities need to rapidly become compact, efficient, electrified, and nature‑rich urban ecosystems where we take better care of each other and avoid locking in more sprawl and fossil‑fuel dependence.

01.16.26 | 11 min read
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