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How can the Clean Air Act—one of the most successful pieces of U.S. environmental legislation to date—be used by the next president to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and address climate action?

Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World, a report by Search for Common Ground and the Consensus Building Institute, was released today.

The Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) has recently honored RBF grantee University of Wisconsin for their 2007 article, "Campaign Ads, Online Messaging, and Participation: Extending the Communication Mediation Model."

In his latest climate action brief, Presidential Climate Action Project Executive Director Bill Becker sheds light on signs of progress toward a new, safer, and more prosperous American economy.

A study by the American University in Cairo (AUC) shatters prevailing Arab news media stereotypes, revealing that much of the conventional wisdom that has shaped U.S. public diplomacy policy toward the region lacks substance.

A new survey by the Johns Hopkins University Nonprofit Listening Post Project, an RBF grantee, shows that American charities are widely engaged in advocacy work despite tight budgets, limited staff time and confusing legal restrictions.

States such as California, Arizona, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Florida are devising sweeping climate and energy policies that could be a blueprint for a future national climate policy.

College campuses across North America are stepping up green practices and policies, with more than two out of three schools showing improved performance over the last year, according to the new "College Sustainability Report Card 2008."

This paper discusses whether climate change will require a significant reduction of consumption among the richer people in the world, and ends with the most optimistic picture the author can conjure up, of the world in the year 2075.

For nearly six years the United Nations Association of the U.S.A. and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund have co-convened a private "Track II" dialogue between former U.S. foreign policy officials and experts and a group of senior Iranian academics and policy advisors.