Editors' Choice 2024

User icon Toby Green
21 February 2024
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Every week, Gary Price and I choose new and noteworthy reports for Policy Matters, a newsletter that goes out to our growing community of registered users. Here are reports we've chosen so far in 2024.


Public Health Law Center · 20 March 2024 English

This publication documents the intertwined paths of the tobacco and gas misinformation campaigns, and the similar health detriments of their products, concluding with ways state and local governments and public …


TPL: The Trust for Public Land · 27 May 2024 English

Americans’ sense of community is being sorely tested . Studies show that people are experiencing extreme levels of loneliness, polarization, and division . Places that historically brought people of different …


ILSR: Institute for Local Self-Reliance · 30 May 2024 English

Upcharge: Hidden Costs of Electric Utility Monopoly Power, is a deep dive into the problems associated with the 100-year-old model granting private companies exclusive power over the public resource of …


AAM: American Alliance of Museums · 23 April 2024 English

This report is structured into three sections: The People, The Work, and The Finances. It highlights the critical strides museum boards have taken with diversity and inclusion in recent years, …


GLA: Greater London Authority · 17 July 2024 English

The London Climate Resilience Review is an independent report commissioned by the Mayor of London to assess and enhance the city's preparedness for climate impacts. The review identifies six urgent …


17 April 2024 English

Plastics show the strongest production growth of all bulk materials over the last decade. The industry’s current growth trajectory is exponential and plastic production is expected to double or triple …


City of New York, New York · 3 April 2024 English

This is the first comprehensive study of environmental inequalities produced by any city in the United States. Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by environmental inequities, due …


ALA: American Lung Association · 24 April 2024 English

"State of the Air" is the American Lung Association's annual national air quality "report card." It uses the most recent air pollution data, compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …


Bullard Center: Robert D. Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University · 7 May 2024 English

“Liquefying the Gulf Coast” examines how liquefied natural gas production disproportionately harms low-income communities and communities of color in Lousiana and Texas. The report examines the social, environmental, economic, and …


PHR: Physicians for Human Rights · 15 March 2024 English

In the nearly two years since the U.S.’ Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion first established in 1973 under Roe v. Wade, lawmakers across the country have introduced …