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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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August 11, 2011
Fossil Fuels
A Must Read Report on Shale Gas
The Natural Gas Subcommittee of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board has published its 90-day interim report (PDF) on “Improving the Safety and Environmental Performance of Hydraulic Fracturing”. I…
August 13, 2020
Human Trafficking
The Evolution of Human Trafficking During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated human lives, the global economy, and educational systems. Given the enormous financial hardship on families, the mass movement of people, and the closing of schoo…
May 20, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Has Congress Abandoned Its War Power?
Capitol Hill seen at sunrise. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The ringing you heard today is the timer expiring on the War Power Resolution’s sixty-day clock. Back on March 20, Presi…
March 28, 2012
Iran
Follow Rather than Fight the Private Sector on Tactical Stockpile Releases
Anticipation is heating up around another release of oil and petroleum products from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), likely in coordination with the United Kingdom, France, and possibly o…
May 13, 2013
United Kingdom
TWE Remembers: Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat”
You finally land the job you have long coveted. But many of your colleagues dislike you, and the task you have been given may be undoable. That’s the situation that Winston Churchill found himself in…
