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Energy and Environment

Environmental Pollution
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Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities
Jun 27, 2022
Starting in the 1930s, neighborhoods across America were redlined—marked on government maps as too hazardous, as in, too Black or too immigrant, for federal home loans. When zoning officials needed somewhere to put a new factory or freeway, those redlined neighborhoods were like a bullseye that they hit again and again.
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Opioids
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Synthetic Opioids, Ukrainian Grain, the Metaverse: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 24, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on countering the illegal flow of synthetic opioids, freeing up Ukrainian grain to prevent famine, the importance of defining the metaverse, and more.
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Environmental and Natural Resource Management
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How Could the United States Incentivize Investors to Decarbonize the Economy?
Ismael Arciniegas Rueda, Nihar Chhatiawala, Mark Stalczynski
May 12, 2022
The Hill
While mandatory climate-related disclosure may improve information and decisionmaking for investors, it alone is unlikely to accelerate investment in decarbonization at the rate needed. To motivate private investment in climate mitigation, policymakers could explore additional policies.
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Peacekeeping and Stability Operations
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A Peacekeeping Operation in Ukraine, Synthetic Opioids, Geoengineering: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 29, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on why it may be time to consider a peacekeeping operation in northern Ukraine, supporting veterans with traumatic brain injury, a new response to synthetic opioids, and more.
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Global Climate Change
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Climate Change Will Transform How We Live, but These Tech and Policy Experts See Reason for Optimism
Robert J. Lempert @RobertLempert, Elisabeth Gilmore
Apr 18, 2022
The Conversation
To slow climate change and adapt to the damage already underway, the world will have to shift how it generates and uses energy, transports people and goods, designs buildings, and grows food. That starts with embracing innovation and change.
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Natural Gas
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Russia Does Not Seem to Be After Ukraine's Gas Reserves
Krystyna Marcinek @KMMarcinek
Apr 11, 2022
The RAND Blog
There seems to be very little reason to believe that the true stakes of the war in Ukraine are the country's natural gas reserves, as some have speculated. Ukrainian gas fields appear too small to justify the costs of the invasion, too hard to keep, and almost impossible for Russia to exploit.
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Fossil Fuels
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How We Might Better Live with Oil in California
Jalal Awan, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg @aclarkginsberg
Apr 1, 2022
CalMatters
As California grapples with the question of balancing environmental stewardship with the recent renewed focus on “local oil,” lawmakers could look to local communities for the best answers to avoid future petro-disasters.
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Refugees
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Helping Ukrainian Refugees, Truth Decay, Algorithmic Inequity: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 1, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on how to help Ukrainian refugees, the link between cognitive processes and Truth Decay, tracking wastewater to understand the spread of COVID-19, and more.
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Biosurveillance
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National Wastewater Tracking Could Help Us Stay Ahead of COVID-19—but Congress Cut the Funds
Douglas Yeung @DouglasCYeung
Mar 24, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle
For years, medical experts have used wastewater to track the spread of diseases. The National Wastewater Surveillance System has the potential to significantly change the way we fight COVID-19 as well as future pandemics, bacterial diseases, and viruses. But building up the robustness of a wastewater surveillance system will take financial support, and it's not clear Congress will provide it.
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Ukraine
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The West's Response to Russia, the State of the Union, Outer Space: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 4, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on how to prevent Russia's war on Ukraine from becoming a war with NATO, insights from RAND on the State of the Union, the future of outer space, and more.
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United States Coast Guard
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A Timely Opportunity for the U.S. Coast Guard to Teach a Man to Protect His Fish
Katherine Anania
Feb 24, 2022
Homeland Security Today
The U.S. Coast Guard has made strong statements suggesting it would be increasing its effort to deter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing activity. As it does so, the Coast Guard might also consider enhancing its role as a trainer of other nations.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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NATO's Open-Door Policy, U.S. Health Care Payments, Climate Migrants: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 4, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on NATO’s open-door policy, U.S. health care payments, supporting climate migrants, and more.
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Arctic Region
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A United Strategy Could Reap Rewards for the United Kingdom in the High North
Nicolas Jouan
Feb 2, 2022
The RAND Blog
The multifaceted nature of Arctic policies, stretching from climate security and scientific cooperation to economic development and conflict mitigation, may require a whole-of-government approach from the United Kingdom. Such an approach could be necessary for the United Kingdom to appear a credible partner to Arctic countries and other third parties.
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Displaced Persons
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To Help Climate Migrants, We Must First Recognize Them
Jay Balagna, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg @aclarkginsberg, Vanessa Parks
Jan 28, 2022
The Hill
Despite the large and growing population displaced by extreme weather, there is no common definition of a “climate migrant.” Once we get a clearer sense of just who is a climate migrant, policy efforts should begin focusing on the full fabric of life in our communities, creating systems that will help migrants become a part of that fabric in safe and dignified ways.
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Global Climate Change
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Geoengineering, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Biosimilar Drugs: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 14, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on technologies that manipulate the climate, what NATO could do to address the Ukraine-Russia crisis, and cost savings from biosimilar drugs.
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Citizen Science
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Citizen Science Helps Communities Participate in, Understand, and Trust Science
Jan 4, 2022
Good citizen science brings a community together and helps it prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. A RAND guide takes non-expert investigators from the early stages of defining their questions and setting their goals, through building their teams, to planning for action.
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