Science & Technology Policy

Federal Agencies

• Federal Agencies & Commissions (White House list)
• U. S. Department of Agriculture (DOA)
• U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• NIMH: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• U.S. Office of Government Ethics
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Federal Regulatory Law and Policy

• Major Environmental Laws (U.S. EPA)
• Environmental Legislation (Colgate University)
• Consolidated U.S. Patent Laws
• Laws Enforced by the FDA and Related Statutes
• NIH: Grants & Funding Opportunities
• The President's Council on Bioethics
• A Framework for Federal Science Policy (AAAS)
• Grants.gov
• About Funding (U.S. NSF)
• Department of Energy - Major Research Areas
• Science and Technology (U.S. DOE)
• GovTrack: Bills by Subject: Keywords and Committees
• NIST Laboratories
• NOAA Research Portal
• Science.gov : USA.gov for Science - Government Science Portal

Delaware Agencies

• Delaware Economic Development Office (DEDO)
• Delaware Department of Agriculture
• Delaware River & Bay Authority
• Delaware Solid Waste Authority
• Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC)
• Delaware Department of Technology and Information
• The Delaware Public Policy Institute (DPPI)

International Policy

• World Intellectual Property Organization
• Report offers guidance on how to safely explore vast aquatic systems buried under antartic ice (NSF)
• Strict international patent laws hurt developing countries, by Amy Kapczynsk (Yale Global)
• International patent law—boon or bane of biotech? (Nature Magazine)
• Australia lifts therapeutic cloning ban, by Rod McGuirk (Associated Press)

Government Policy Formation

• Science policy: establishing guidelines, setting priorities, by Laure Haak (Science Magazine)
• Scientists, engineers needed to help guide federal policy development, by John Sargent (Science Magazine)
• Taking science out of the box--foresight recast, by David A. King and Sandy M. Thomas (Science Magazine)
• Defining the spectrum of genome policy, by Susanne B. Haga & Huntington F. Willard (Nature Reviews)
• System-ready scientists, by Michael Alvarez (Nature Magazine)
• Enhancing government decision making though knowledge discovery from data, by Herna Victor, et al.
• AIDS panel leaves experts out in the cold: shock greets government decision to include 'dissidents', by Ranjeni Munusamy (Sunday Times, South Africa)
• Connecting science, policy, and decision-making, by Katharine Jacobs (NOAA Office of Glogal Programs)
• Improving science and technology advice for Congress, by M. Granger Morgan, et al., (Science Magazine)
• End government science funding, by Terence Kealey (Cato Institute)

Healthcare Policy

• The case for a regulated system of living kidney sales, by Abdallah S. Daar (Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology)
• Organ transplantation: ethical dilemmas and policy choices (The President's Council on Bioethics)
• Take organs from all dead, MP demands, by Gaby Hinsliff (The Observer)
• Research shows that policy defaults are seen as recommendations on important issues, by Barry Jagoda (UCSD News)
• Recommendations implicit in policy defaults, by Craig Mckenzie, et al.
• The case for mandatory organ donation, by Scott Carney (WIRED Magazine)
• Organs for sale: where in the world can I buy a heart?, by Michelle Tsai (WIRED Magazine)
• Black-market scandal shakes India's ban on organ sales, by Scott Carney (WIRED Magazine)
• Inside 'Kidneyville': Rani's story, by Scott Carney (WIRED Magazine)
• Why a kidney (street value: $3,000) sells for $85,000, by Scott Carney (WIRED Magazine)
• Organ donation: saving lives through incentives, by Donald Boudreaux and Adam C. Pritchard (Mackinac Center for Public Policy)
• Would you give a stranger your kidney? The ethics of "unknown" kidney donors, by Jeffrey P. Kahn (CNN Health)
• Giving 'til it hurts: how far to go in living organ donation?, by Jeffrey P. Kahn (CNN Health)
• Organ donation - we'll make it worth your while, by Jeffrey P. Kahn (CNN Health)
• Issues in pediatric organ donation, by Carman Koch D'Agostino (DCMS Online)
• Pediatric organ donation and transplantation (American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement)
• A shot of fear, by Virginia Hughes (Nature Magazine--Subscription)
• China plans to modernize traditional medicine, by Jane Qiu (Nature Magazine--Subscription)
• At risk: vaccines, by Paul A. Offit (Boston Globe)
• Fight over vaccine-autism link hits court, by Shankar Vedantam (Washington Post)
• US vaccines on trial over link to autism, by Jim Giles (New Scientist)
• Autism: Why the debate rages, by Sharyl Attkisson (CBS News)
• Emotions run high over autism causes (ABC News)
• HPV vaccine advised for girls, by David Brown (Washington Post)
• Defusing the war over the "promiscuity" vaccine, by Nancy Gibbs (TIME Magazine)
• Judicial Watch uncovers three deaths relating to HPV vaccine (Judicial Watch)
• Many in Senate back mandatory HPV vaccination, by Lisa Rein and Ovetta Wiggins (Washington Post)

Environmental Policy

• Money the best way to protect biodiversity, by Danny Kingsley (ABC Science Online-Australia)
• 'Green' plan aims to cut energy costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissons in Delaware, by Becca Hutchinson (UDaily)
• National science board proposes major initiative in hurricane science and engineering (NSF)
• Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities (National Research Council)
• Environmental Health Issues, by Ken Sexton (Environmental Health Perspectives)
• 'Weak' U.S. Environment Policy Annoys Partners : Summit Closes in Discord, by Brian Knowlton (International Herald Tribune)
• Environment and US policy top global fears, by Simon Tisdall (The Guardian)
• Tax Policy Towards Energy and the Environment, by Gilbert E. Metcalf (National Bureau of Economic Research)