- Dirty Water: Mapping Projected Climate Change Impacts in the United States and Abroad
- Money and Methods in Cancer Research
- Report Details How Climate Change Will Spark Heat Waves, Increase the Spread of Disease, and Erode Coastal Economies
- FDA Looks to Open Up the Medicine Cabinet
- NIH Funding is Good for Your Health, and It’s Good for the Economy
- Progressive Science Values
- Climate Change Will Not Be Kind to American Water and Agriculture
- Less Philosophy, More Policy: Obama Disbands Council on Bioethics and Will Create New One
- The Digital Textbook Case
- The Worn Grooves of Disciplinary Research
- NIH By the Numbers: Challenge Grants, Stem Cell Comments, and Conflict of Interest Rules
- States Are Looking to Grow Their Biotech Sectors
The Dish: Sampling Science and Technology News - Mar. 31, 2008
The Bush administration recently appealed a court ruling which found the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act in 2005 by introducing a cap-and-trade system for mercury pollution from power plants. In his recent column on “Fishy Government,” Chris Mooney explains the Bush administration’s long-running and indefensible behavior on mercury pollution.
Avery Palmer at CQ Today reports that Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) is looking to subpoena the Environmental Protection Agency for documents related to carbon emission regulation. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA must regulate carbon emissions, but the agency has yet to provide a draft regulation proposal it agreed to have ready by the end of last year.
Russell Dinnage of Greenwire profiles Christopher De Rosa, a toxicologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who recently accused his CDC bosses of censoring (subscription) two studies on chemicals that were making people sick.
The Mercury News reports that business leaders from leading tech companies called for an increase in H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers at a recent briefing hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Oracle Vice President Robert Hoffman hopes Congress can provide “short-term relief” by doubling the current H-1B visa cap.
Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection has launched a three-year, $300 million advocacy campaign to raise awareness about global climate change and methods to reduce emissions in the United States.
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