Political and scientific leaders meet in Marseille to debate the biodiversity crisis; meanwhile closer to home, a NYC volunteer group moves to help protect nesting piping plovers.
Read more...While air passengers today might someday see the eventual end of the COVID-19 public health security measures, they’re far less likely to see a return to pre-9/11 security levels at airports.
Read more...Russia and the UK take limited steps to slow the plastics juggernaut.
Read more...Optimal economic policy for LDCs requires their goverments to resist aping Washington and OECD fads.
Read more...From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are retreatig from neoliberalism. But what comes next?
Read more...Maia Szalavitz’s “Undoing Drugs” chronicles the growing harm reduction movement which prioritizes people in the battle against addiction.
Read more...Anti-monopoly interests have proposed a series of bills to give regulators more power, particularly with respect to tech.
Read more...Ida’s epic flooding is likely to become part of an extreme weather new normal.
Read more...Soros has a hissy over China’s Xi no longer wanting to play nicely with foreign investors.
Read more...An important CalPERS beneficiary group calls out the fund’s use of illegal, insecure, fraud-friendly internet and phone voting.
Read more...Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny. The IPCC is inadvertently helping them.
Read more...Examines the macroeconomic effects of global food commodity price increases that are caused by global harvest and weather disruptions, and finds that the decline in economic activity is substantial and greater in advanced than in low-income countries.
Read more...Why David Miller deserves a special place in the CalPERS board member Hall of Shame.
Read more...Gulf Coast communities face added pollution as Hurricane Ida nears amid the build-out of gas export and plastic-manufacturing plants.
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