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Office of Science and Technology Policy

In 1976, Congress established the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to provide the President and others within the Executive Office of the President with advice on the scientific, engineering, and technological aspects of the economy, national security, homeland security, health, foreign relations, the environment, and the technological recovery and use of resources, among other topics.

In His Time, a Visionary Leader in Science

Advancing Historic Environmental Achievements

A generation of environmental policies, programs & law

"My friend George"

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner / SJS: George was looking forward to the 21st century and especially to the challenge of nuclear non-proliferation, his concern for decades. George was a visionary, an engineer, a vet who opposed disastrous war, and a leader in Congress who led from California in shaping the modern environmental movement.

He was instrumental in proposing and establishment of the U.S. Presidential Office of Science and Technology Policy, which immediately drafted what is now seen as the first profound warnings of the danger of climate change. He proposed the first US national climate change legislation, the National Climate Program Act, drafted the legislation, and shepherded its passage back in 1978.

In his rumpled suits and quiet way he moved to form coalitions few thought could be formed and garnered support for the first set of U.S. Congressional acts that served as foundation legislation for decades of green progress.

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George E. Brown, Jr. was widely known as the leading statesman and advocate for science, engineering and technology policy in the United States Congress. George Brown was a member of the House of Representatives from California for more than 35 years. During his tenure he rose to the Chairmanship of what is now the House Committee on Science, Space & Technology and was one of the nation’s most ardent supporters of federal research.

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