Tag: Regulation
Drilling deeper wells is a band-aid solution to US groundwater woes
Debra Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara and Scott Jasechko, University of California, Santa Barbara
With memories of the wettest U.S. spring on record still...
Companies’ self-regulation doesn’t have to be bad for the public
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University
If Boeing is allowed to certify that a crash-prone aircraft is safe, and Facebook can violate users’ privacy expectations, should companies...
How Uber and other digital platforms could trick us using behavioral...
Abbey Stemler, Indiana University; Joshua E. Perry, Indiana University, and Todd Haugh, Indiana University
Uber’s business model is incredibly simple: It’s a platform that facilitates...
As air pollution increases in some US cities, the Trump administration...
Jason West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Barbara Turpin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Air pollution kills. In the United...
Top EPA advisers challenge long-standing air pollution science, threatening Americans’ health
Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Americans rely on the Environmental Protection Agency to set pollution control standards that protect their health. But on...
EPA’s plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a...
Laurel Schaider, Harvard University
After more than a year of community meetings and deliberations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in February 2019 that it...
Shutdown’s economic impact is a forceful reminder of why government matters
Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan and Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, University of Michigan
As the United States endures the longest shutdown in its history, Americans are...
Congress takes first steps toward regulating artificial intelligence
Ana Santos Rutschman, Saint Louis University
Some of the best known examples of artificial intelligence are Siri and Alexa, which listen to human speech, recognize...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
