Writing

Rebuilding Environmental Governance: Understanding the Foundations

Jordan Diamond, Sandra Nichols Thiam, Jay Austin, Linda Breggin

Our environmental system was built for 1970s-era pollution control, but today it needs stable, integrated, multi-level governance that can make tradeoffs, share and use evidence, and deliver infrastructure while…

Costs Come First in a Reset Climate Agenda

Devin Hartman, Neel Brown

Durable and legitimate climate action requires a government capable of clearly weighting, explaining, and managing cost tradeoffs to the widest away of audiences, which in turn requires strong technocratic competency.

FAS Launches New “Center for Regulatory Ingenuity” to Modernize American Governance, Drive Durable Climate Progress

FAS is launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI) to build a new, transpartisan vision of government that works – that has the capacity to achieve ambitious goals while adeptly responding to people’s basic…

FAS Opposes EPA Move to Revoke 2009 Endangerment Finding

This runs counter to public opinion: 4 in 5 of all Americans, across party lines, want to see the government take stronger climate action.

Bureaucracy as Social Hope: An Argument for Renewing the Administrative State

Hannah Safford, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Craig Segall

The American administrative state, since its modern creation out of the New Deal and the post-WWII order, has proven that it can do great things. But it needs some reinvention first.