Environmental Science and Technology
1993 - 2003

The Science and Technology Policy Institute provided policy analysis to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the cabinet-level National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), and government agencies concerned with policies affecting science and technology.

Institute researchers and policy analysts worked with the OSTP Environment division and the NSTC Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources (CENR) since December 1993 in a range of areas. Projects included extended analysis of policy issues related to the development and implementation of the National Environmental Technology Strategy, as well as addressing other key interagency environmental science and technology issues. For example, the institute analyzed stakeholder input for developing the National Environmental Technology Strategy, developed a template for performance measures for federal environmental R&D, summarized federal R&D expenditures in social and economic dimensions of environmental change, studied industry environmental R&D practices and analyzed federal, state and local government collaboration in environmental technology development and application.

Completed S&T Policy Institute Environmental Analyses Include

• Analyzing Measure Use in Ecosystem Management
• Analysis for Technology for a Sustainable Future: A Framework for Action
• Analyzing Stakeholder Input for Developing the National Environmental Technology Strategy
• Performance Measures for Federal Programs in Environmental and Natural Resources R&D
• Social and Economic Dimensions of Environmental Change
• Analyzing Sustainable Community Activities and their Relationship to Pollution Prevention Efforts
• A Framework for Comparing Federal R&D on Environmental Technologies
• Federal, State, and Local Government Collaboration in Environmental Technology Development and Diffusion
• Monitoring Collaboration
• State and Local Government Innovative Regulatory Activities
• Characterizing Monitoring Technologies for Regulatory Reinvention

S&T Policy Institute Environmental Reports Include

Monitoring for Fine Particulate Matter, Elisa Eiseman, MR-974-OSTP (HTML or PDF), 1998.

Linking Sustainable Community Activities to Pollution Prevention: A Sourcebook, Beth E. Lachman, MR-855-OSTP, 1997. The Electronic Green Journal has reviewed this book.

Sustainable Food Production Workshop, Policy Options to Promote Environmental Technologies, Beth E. Lachman, P-7966, 1996.

National Environmental Technology Strategy: Residential Construction Workshop, October 1994, Thomas L. Anderson, Beth E. Lachman, P-7965, 1996.

Performance Measures for the Federal Investment in Environmental and Natural Resources Research and Development, Robert J. Lempert, Beth E. Lachman, Susan Fuhs, N. Darius Sankey, DRU-1179-CTI, 1995.

Technology for a Sustainable Future -- Ideas: A Summary of Workshop Discussions, Beth E. Lachman, Robert J. Lempert, Susan Resetar, Thomas Anderson. Reprinted from White House Conference on Environmental Technology, RP-417, 1995.