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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#NationalAcademies to fast-track a new #climate assessment
The move by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to self-fund the study is a departure from their typical practice of responding to requests by #government agencies or #Congress for advice. The Academies intend to publicly release it in September, in time to inform Environmental Protection Agency’s (#EPA) decision on the so-called “endangerment finding,” they said in a prepared statement.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

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Ars Technica · National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessmentBy Inside Climate News
Good Think Hunting

Unser Digitalminister zieht Palantir in Betracht. deutschlandfunk.de/digitalmini

Unsere Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte macht Werbung für die ePA und möchte diese auch selbst nutzen. abendblatt.de/politik/article4

Unser Bundestag möchte zu Tiktok (statt es zu verbieten). tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli

Polizei überprüft psychisch kranke Menschen. netzpolitik.org/2025/hessen-po

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Wie geht’s euch so, wenn ihr Nachrichten lest?
#epa #datenschutz #tiktok #palantir

Porträt von Karsten Wildberger, designierter Bundesminister für Digitalisierung und Staatsmodernisierung. Er blickt direkt in die Kamera.
Die NachrichtenSicherheitspolitik - Digitalminister Wildberger grundsätzlich offen für Palantir-SoftwareDigitalminister Wildberger zeigt sich grundsätzlich offen für den Einsatz von Technologien wie der Analyse-Software des US-Unternehmens Palantir bei deutschen Sicherheitsbehörden.
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Nonilex

…The moves to terminate #union #contracts, which affect thousands of federal employees, come after the 9th Circuit…this month lifted a preliminary injunction blocking #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder.
“Make no mistake, this move isn’t about government efficiency or national security. It’s about silencing #workers & clearing the way for more #deregulation,” said Justin Chen, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, which represents >8k #EPA workers nationally, in a statement…

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Contrarian #climate assessment from #US #government draws swift pushback
Researchers say #DOE cherry-picks data to downplay threat of #greenhousegases
Department of Energy released its own climate assessment, as part of a campaign by the #US EPA to overturn its landmark endangerment finding from 2009, which found that burning #fossilfuels endangers #publichealth and established #carbondioxide as a #pollutant #EPA could regulate.
science.org/content/article/co
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

The Register: Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices . “The GAO flagged failures at the General Services Administration (GSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the three reports, with each guilty of not implementing more recommendations than the last. The DHS’ CIO, in particular, has 43 unresolved […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/the-register-three-us-agencies-get-failing-grades-for-not-following-it-best-practices/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · The Register: Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#BestPractices#cybersecurity#departmentofhomelandsecuritydhs_
Glyn Moody

First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force #EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a "Coalition of non-profits, tribes and local governments sued EPA chief for halting climate justice grants" we need many more of these #climatecrisis

The Guardian · First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate programBy Nina Lakhani
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

The #US’s #asbestos U-turn: why the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA) is reconsidering its ban
Although the properties of asbestos at the macroscopic level are beneficial, at the microscopic level it’s anything but. When dust from asbestos (0.1 to tens of microns) is inhaled, it deposits throughout the respiratory system, causing inflammation and scarring of lung tissue.
theconversation.com/the-uss-as

The ConversationThe US’s asbestos U-turn: why the Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering its ban
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