{"id":4667,"date":"2017-03-30T22:13:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2017-03-30T22:13:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:13:54","slug":"eating-the-seed-corn-science-policy-reading-list-for-march-30-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/eating-the-seed-corn-science-policy-reading-list-for-march-30-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating the Seed Corn: Science Policy Reading List for March 30, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The assault by the Executive Branch of the US government continues on basic scientific research and sound policy based on science. Here is a reading list covering some key issues from the last couple of weeks:<\/p>\n

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  1. Perspective: “In Trump\u2019s budget: The unwisest cut<\/a>“, by NYU President Andrew Hamilton. (Washington Post)<\/li>\n
  2. “Latest Trump budget cuts at a glance<\/a>“, by the Associated Press. Discusses the President’s proposal that the current year’s science budget be slashed to pay for the start of border wall construction. <\/em>(Washington Post)<\/li>\n
  3. “Trump, in break from other world leaders, digs in on coal<\/a>“.\u00a0Matthew Daly and Jill Colvin, Associated Press. A discussion of Trump’s new executive order, which begins to unravel President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan.” Ironically, it was not regulation by the federal government that doomed the coal industry; it was coal, and how non-competitive it is in the free market of energy choices. <\/em>(Washington Post)<\/li>\n
  4. “Despite Trump Move on Climate Change, Utilities\u2019 Shift From Coal Is Set to Continue<\/a>“.\u00a0Cassandra Sweet. The market has spoken: coal is a loser.<\/em> (Wall Street Journal)<\/li>\n
  5. “Trump puts the planet on a dangerous path<\/a>“. Washington Post Editorial Board.<\/li>\n
  6. “China affirms climate pledge after Trump rolls back rules<\/a>“. Joe McDonald, Associated Press. Illustrates the fact that the President is weakening U.S. leadership on the world stage, diminishing our influence\u00a0as a nation.<\/em> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The assault by the Executive Branch of the US government continues on basic scientific research and sound policy based on science. Here is a reading list covering some key issues from the last couple of weeks: Perspective: “In Trump\u2019s budget: The unwisest cut“, by NYU President Andrew Hamilton. (Washington Post) “Latest Trump budget cuts at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-science","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}