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Fossil Fuels and Public Lands: How the US Interior Department Can Act on Climate Right Now Photo: Rexjaymes/Shutterstock
Joel Clement, Senior fellow | April 6, 2021, 12:32 pm EDT This post is a part of a series on
Those of us who work on climate action, whether it be reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow warming or addressing the impacts of the warming that’s already baked into the system, we tend toward the somber. We’re optimists, or we wouldn’t be doing it at all, but circumstances can sometimes dampen our outward enthusiasm, to say the least. So to hear the president’s cabinet talk about climate change daily, to see the White House hiring some of the best and brightest climate minds in the country, to hear federal agency staff describing how climate change interacts with
The Number of Minority Nonemployer Firms Grew by Nearly 17% between 2014 and 2017
U.S. Census Bureau Releases New Data Product
Washington DC, Dec. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The Nation’s nearly 8.2 million minority nonemployer firms generated $279.3 billion in revenues in 2017 and grew in number at four times the rate of nonminority nonemployer firms between 2014 and 2017. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau (Census), released these new statistical data today in the 2017 Minority Business Summary for Nonemployer Businesses (Summary). The Summary provides an overview of minority nonemployer businesses by race, sex, veteran status and state, drawn from the Census Bureau’s new Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D) data product, including growth comparisons to 2014 levels and to non-minority nonemployer firms.
Revamping Federal Climate Science
December 15, 2020, 5:00 am Getty/Liu Shiping/Xinhua
Sam Hananel
Ari Drennen
Introduction and summary
The United States has been the global leader in climate science for decades. Unfortunately, progress has slowed and in some cases, even moved backward over the past four years, with the Trump administration dismantling core elements of the federal climate science apparatus. As the country and the planet head toward an increasingly unstable climate, the U.S. government needs to get back to the business of being the preeminent source of trusted applied science that supports climate change mitigation and adaptation decision-making of governments and civilian stakeholders.