Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law and policy changes that impact science and scientists today.

From a flurry of executive orders to legislative deregulation to radical reorganization of federal agencies, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has introduced a broad agenda promising to usher in “the Golden Age of America.”

The agenda includes major and minor changes to science policy. Our tracker lets you sift through chronology and categories critical to the Earth and space sciences from the Trump administration and around the world:

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Health & Safety
  • Federal Workforce
  • Universities and Academia

View the tracker in full screen here, and learn more about the State of the Science with our special report.

Science and scientists are affected by a much wider range of policies, of course—immigration, trade, social justice. Scroll to the end of this post for a broad list of comprehensive and targeted trackers.

We encourage you to visit these trackers to better understand the scope and sequence of the administration’s actions and statements.

Comprehensive

Academia

Climate

Environment

Federal Workforce

Health & Safety

Immigration

Litigation

Trade

Tracking the Trackers

These updates are made possible through information from the scientific community. Do you have a story about how changes in law or policy are affecting scientists or research? Send us a tip at [email protected].

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