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AUGUST 14, 2025 |
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Cars move along Park Avenue in New York City. (Photo by Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis/Getty Images) | | |
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Environment and energy |
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Harvard Kennedy School experts analyze the potential effects of environmental policy deregulation |
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In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency published what is called an “endangerment finding” that stated carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endangered public health, allowing the agency under the Clean Air Act to impose rules to govern the emission of greenhouse gases. The Trump administration now wants to reverse the endangerment finding. Read analysis from HKS experts on how this proposed reversal could affect the environment, public health, the food we eat, and the standing of the United States in global conversations on climate change.
Also see: Learn about or register for Harvard Climate Action Week 2025, taking place September 15 to 21.
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Education, training and labor |
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HKS research explores external and internal threats to academic freedom |
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Research by HKS faculty member Pippa Norris suggests that both autocracies and countries undergoing democratic backsliding experience diminished academic freedom due to external legal and political pressures and self-censorship within universities. In a new working paper, Norris looked at data from 179 countries from 2000 to 2023. The evidence suggests that academic freedom was most repressed in autocratic countries such as Iran, Russia, China, and Egypt—and that this repression is a growing concern in other nations where democratic institutions are weakening. Norris writes, “institutions of higher education need to resist these pressures if they are to fulfill their classic mission of advancing human knowledge, expanding scientific progress, and strengthening civic deliberation.”
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What we're Doing |
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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Arctic Initiative brought together Indigenous, technical, academic, policy, and legal experts and practitioners to discuss the governance of climate interventions in the Arctic. Read newly published takeaways from the two-day convening. | | | | | |
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