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Climate Deregulation Tracker

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“The Climate Deregulation Tracker identified steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The tracker is linked to our database of climate change regulations and our two other climate regulation trackers: the Climate Reregulation Tracker covering the Biden administration and the Climate Backtracker covering the second Trump administration. Read more about the tracker and climate deregulation news. Please contact Martin Lockman ([email protected]) with questions or corrections.”

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Inflation Reduction Act Tracker

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“The Sabin Center and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) are relaunching the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker (IRA Tracker) with added functionality and analysis. The IRA Tracker is an interactive tool designed to help users understand the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The website includes a database with summaries of the… Continue Reading

Climate Backtracker

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“The Sabin Center’s new online tool – the Climate Backtracker – will identify steps taken by the Trump-Vance administration to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The Backtracker is the third iteration of Sabin Center climate regulation trackers. The first was the Climate Deregulation Tracker which tracked climate-related regulatory actions… Continue Reading

Silencing Science Tracker

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“The Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. It tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election. Read more about the tracker and related resources. We… Continue Reading

Meet the tracking companies that follow you around the internet

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Datawrapper – “Considering the cookie consent banners that have come to grace our screens on a daily basis, it might not come as a surprise that companies are interested in extracting data from your online activities, and that browsing the internet is not exactly a private affair. Still, it is hard to grasp how this… Continue Reading

Sciurls

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“Sciurls is a project by Browserling – a friendly and fun cross-browser testing company powered by alien technology.” “It looks like a Really Simple way to manage content Syndication” Looking for finance/business news? We also have FINURLS – finance news aggregator. Check it out! Continue Reading

Big Brother Becomes Little Brother

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Ken Klippenstein – Corporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits – Envious of the power and wealth of corporate America, the head of U.S. intelligence has issued a new directive calling on the spy agencies to “routinize”  and “expand” their partnerships with private companies. Agencies are even authorized to incur “risk” in these… Continue Reading

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back

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Angela Levine – “The day after President Donald Trump began his second term, people noticed that they could no longer access a .gov web page outlining women’s rights to abortion and contraception under US law. The Biden administration created the web page, reproductiverights.gov, after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending… Continue Reading

The New Yorker is 100 years old this year

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“On February 22, 2025, A Century of The New Yorker will open at The New York Public Library, showcasing the history of The New Yorker from its launch in 1925 to present day and bringing to life the people, stories, and ideas that have defined the iconic magazine. Founding documents, rare manuscripts, photographs, and timeless cover… Continue Reading

UK Library Releases Massive Holocaust Archive Online

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Wiener Digital Collections: Thousands of pages documenting Nazi persecution digitised for unprecedented online access. Composite image featuring items from our unique collection, now available online for the first time. To mark International Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library, one of the largest Nazi-era archives in the world, has launched a new online portal putting… Continue Reading