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Key Points: On Earth Day, the Biden-Harris administration announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50 to 52 percent reduction in economy-wide GHG emissions by 2030, which constitutes the country's new NDC under the Paris Agreement. To achieve the new NDC, the United States envisions a "whole-of-government" approach to catalyze opportunities for businesses to partner with the federal government to rapidly transform the power, transportation, buildings, industrial and agriculture and lands sectors. The close partisan split in Congress likely will force the administration to rel...

A prime example is legislation in Congress, the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act, which would require states to “consider authorizing measures encouraging deployment of electric vehicle charging stations [and] allowing utilities to recover from ratepayers investments that further deployment of electric vehicle charging networks.”   Proponents claim the proposal is about protecting the interests of historically overburdened communities on the front line. But the reality will be passing along the cost of electric vehicle (EV) charging stati...

© Getty Images The nation is experiencing a watershed moment for science and innovation. Both houses of Congress recently held hearings to discuss bold new plans to accelerate the nation’s science and innovation ecosystem to address major societal challenges and, in the process, reignite the U.S. economy. I had the privilege to serve as a witness in one of these hearings last Thursday. These discussions come at a true inflection point for U.S. competitiveness. While investments in research and development (R&D) have fueled our nation’s broad prosperity since World War II, our R&D ecosyst...

By Natalie Alms   The American Federation of Government Employees is concerned that the pay and hiring flexibilities lawmakers are considering for the National Science Foundation could damage the soundness of the merit-based pay system at the agency. A bill introduced last month by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), chairwoman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, would give the NSF expanded power outside of the civil service system to hire and pay employees as part of a bill aimed at strengthening the agency's research capabilities. The National Science Foundation for the...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/505205.html (Natural News) A number of chemicals found in some everyday items have long been determined to be harmful to the environment. But further investigations have revealed that some of these substances also impact the health of human beings. Furthermore, these affect human fertility, especially that of males, by reducing the amount of sperm produced by their bodies and the size of their genitalia. According to Shanna Swan of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, sperm counts in human males have fallen by almost three-fifths since 19...