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In 2012, New York state (NYS) generated over 17.8 million tons of municipal solid waste. An assessment of the options for reducing landfilled waste and emissions through the use of advanced waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies was needed, as was an…

Where students go to college is key to their educational attainment and later economic success. However, 41 percent of students nationally and about half of those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds undermatch—meaning they don’t attend college or they…

Good governance is critical to Mexico’s long-term competitiveness. Improved competitiveness, in turn, is the key to rational and efficient use of the country’s natural-resource base. This is particularly important for rural producers who live in…

A variety of environmental factors threaten manoomin (wild rice) in the Lake Superior Basin. Given that, as part of the Lake Superior Wild Rice Initiative,  Lake Superior Basin Anishinaabe communities, NOAA, and state agencies sought to document and…

EPA’s Office of Research and Development needed to expand its online, publicly available Drinking Water Treatability Database (TDB). The goal was to allow the database to better support decision making about emerging contaminants of concern.

Structures such as buildings and roads, absorb and re-emit much more of the sun’s heat than do natural landscapes such as forests and bodies of water. Urban areas with highly concentrated structures become “islands” of higher temperatures compared to…

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) oversees federal efforts to resettle refugees and help them become self-sufficient. ORR administers the Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) program, which…

There is clear evidence that individuals living within rural and remote areas are more likely to suffer from disease compared to metropolitan areas.  The lack of health services prompted Australia’s Department of Health to implement the Rural Primary…

Widening skills gaps in high-demand occupations indicate the need to develop training programs that better fit industry needs and the circumstances of individuals who could fill those needs.

The majority of American adults take dietary supplements, and the market for these products continues to grow. In the U.S., dietary supplements are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as food, not as drugs, and do not require approval or…