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What Makes the College-Educated More Likely to Vote?

Union of Concerned Scientists

A study investigating how much education affects voting rates from 1950 to 2004 found that this positive correlation has increased since 1980. College attendance and areas of study influence student voting rates Whether the effect of a college degree on political participation is direct or indirect is debated among sociologists.

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

Circle of Blue

How SWOT will influence the political balance of power is a question that Faisal Hossain is tasked with understanding. Political sensitivities are an important consideration. Hossain recently returned from a trip to Jordan, where he met with Iraqi government ministers to discuss water issues. Hossain joined the team in 2008.

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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019.

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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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How Bad Ballot Design Can Impact Election Outcomes—And What We Can Do 

Union of Concerned Scientists

After clicking around, I found one on a non-government site and reviewed the list of contests and ballot measures. Nationally, since 2004, the evidence shows that the number of over- and undervotes averages about one percent.While that sounds low, a big problem is that certain districts have higher residual vote rates than others.

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Guest post: Brazil will have first climate litigation trials in the Supreme Court

Law Columbia

The PPCDAm represents a package of measures and financial directives by the Federal Government to combat deforestation and degradation in the Amazon. In 2020, the Supreme Court held a preliminary public hearing for the parties to present facts on deforestation in the Amazon and the results achieved by the PPCDAm between 2004 and 2020.