Advocacy

SPOT offers legislators and policy groups single-page Policy Briefs and Fact Sheets to summarize key information about scientific topics of legislative interest. These documents are free, non-partisan, and written by our membership of science and engineering graduate students. Our aim is to support evidence-based policy by leveraging our skills to distill and synthesize complex scientific issues into easily understandable forms. 

We most recently visited Springfield  in February 2024 to talk to legislators about our efforts and services!

For more information, or if you want to talk more about this, please contact us! We’re always looking for new topics to work on.

Previous Policy Briefs (in chronological order, most recent first):

Great Lakes Water Quality (March 2024)

Opioid Use (August 2023)

Chronic Illness (August 2023)

Lead Pipes (August 2023)

Nuclear Energy (August 2023)

Food Waste Remediation (July 2023)

Community Gardening (July 2023)

Organic Farming (July 2023)

Unrecycleable Waste (June 2020)

Coal-tar Sealant Health Impacts (April 2020)

5G (March 2020)

Electric Vehicles (March 2020)

Meningitis B (March 2020)

Pharmaceutical Disposal (March 2020)

HPV (February 2020)

Air Testing (January 2020)

Chicago (District 45) Air Quality (January 2020)

Chicago (General) Air Quality (January 2020)

Recycling in Illinois (December 2019)

Bees and Roadsides (October 2019)

Neonicotinoids (October 2019)

BPA (March 2019)

Fracking (February 2019)