Climate Change: A Hot Topic for Congress

POLICY 03.24.2019 11:47 AM

Congress debates climate change policies. The House Science Committee held its first of a promised series of hearings on climate change on Feb. 13, with a second one, dedicated to its impacts on oceans and coasts, scheduled shortly thereafter.

Scientists are Criticizing the Science of EPA’s Clean Air Standards

03.23.2019 12:46 PM

CASAC is recommending a full overhaul of the EPA's scientific-based clean air standards. Today's cleaner air is mostly thanks to science-based air pollution standards.

Insurance Premiums Higher Due To Climate Change

03.22.2019 07:41 AM

Munich Re, a major player in the insurance industry, warns that insurance premiums could go up and become a social problem.

Cryptocurrency: Regulations and Policies Are Being Written

03.19.2019 08:49 AM

Japan drafts cryptocurrency regulations. Today cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, have become a global phenomenon known to most people. While still somehow geeky and not understood by the majority of the population, banks, governments and many companies are aware of its importance.

Climate Change: Experts Are Still Concerned

03.18.2019 08:03 AM

It's everyone's responsibility. Since the election of President Donald Trump, the trend in US federal policy has been to focus on other areas other than climate change.

Autonomous vehicles could be an environmental boon or disaster, depending on public policy

03.12.2019 10:47 AM

Widespread use of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could either massively increase or drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions depending, in large part, on public policy, according to new research from Princeton University.

Endocrine Society commends reinvigorated effort to regulate chemicals in personal care products

03.09.2019 10:17 AM

WASHINGTON, DC--The Endocrine Society applauded the reintroduction of a Senate bill that would give government regulators needed authority to protect consumers from exposure to hazardous endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in cosmetics and other personal care products.

Technologies for removing CO2 will need to be integrated into climate policy in 2019

02.20.2019 08:46 AM

In a new statement, the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC), which represents the national science academies of the EU Member States, Norway, and Switzerland, says its latest analysis reveals that technologies and techniques for removing CO2 from the atmosphere are becoming even more significant with the failure to reverse the growth in global emissions.

Jobs vs. death toll: Calculating corporate death penalties

02.20.2019 08:25 AM

Is there a threshold an entire industry crosses when it does more harm than good? Michigan Technological University researchers set out to examine the question with numbers.

Coral-destroying sunscreen ingredients banned in Florida

02.13.2019 18:19 PM

Florida bans oxybenzone and octinoxate-containing sunscreens Key West City in Florida has followed the lead of Hawaii in banning sunscreens that contain oxybenzone and octinoxate.

Battery recycling in electric vehicles: A new problem to an alternative solution in GHG emission

02.13.2019 09:44 AM

Greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector can be solved through battery recycling. Greenhouse gas emissions are a concern in the environmental well-being of the world.

Price disclosure legislation unlikely to lower drug costs

02.02.2019 09:23 AM

CLEMSON, South Carolina -- The Trump administration's proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to publish drug prices in TV ads is unlikely to help control drug prices, according to a study publishing Jan. 22, 2019, in JAMA Internal Medicine.

United Nations, World Economic Forum and partners unite to address e-waste

01.24.2019 17:05 PM

Joint report: Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution show huge potential and could lead to "dematerialization", better product tracking, take-back and recycling, and products sold as services

Price disclosure legislation unlikely to lower drug costs

01.23.2019 10:56 AM

The Trump administration's proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to publish drug prices in TV ads is unlikely to help control drug prices, according to a study publishing Jan. 22, 2019, in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Price disclosure legislation unlikely to lower drug costs

01.22.2019 18:36 PM

CLEMSON, South Carolina -- The Trump administration's proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to publish drug prices in TV ads is unlikely to help control drug prices, according to a study publishing Jan. 22, 2019, in JAMA Internal Medicine.