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Ahead of the Wildland Fire Commission Report Release, a Roundup of FAS’s Efforts to Provide Input on Wildland Fire Policy

…days. Over the past year, together with partner organizations COMPASS, Conservation X Labs, and the California Council on Science and Technology, FAS recruited diverse experts to participate in our Wildland…

09.26.23 | 3 min read
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FAS
Press release
Board Update: John Bailey Joins FAS Board of Directors

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is excited to announce that John Bailey has joined the organization’s board of directors. John’s background includes roles in government, philanthropic institutions, and venture…

09.26.23 | 2 min read
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Environment
day one project
Policy Memo
Towards a Well-Being Economy: Establishing an American Mental Wealth Observatory

…product (GDP). While the concept of GDP had been established decades earlier, it was during a 1960 meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that economic growth became…

09.18.23 | 10 min read
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Environment
Issue Brief
Seeing Through the Haze: How the federal government does (and doesn’t) work to reduce public exposure to wildland fire smoke

…(DOE, DoD, DHS, NIST ) agencies all take part in wildland fire smoke research, with frequent collaboration across agencies and offices (e.g. FASMEE and FIREX-AQ, below). In addition, federal agencies…

09.13.23 | 24 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Buying in Bulk: Electrifying Fleets Across the Country

The Electrification Coalition (EC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that develops and implements a broad set of strategies to facilitate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) to overcome the…

09.11.23 | 15 min read
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