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Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

Before joining UCS last year, she worked at the Center for Progressive Reform and the Center for Science and Public Interest. The study looked at cancer diagnoses between 2006 and 2019 and found “significantly greater than expected” cases of lymphocytic leukemia and breast cancer. What are your top three?

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

2] Over the last 25 years, increasingly decentralized electricity generation in restructured electricity markets, along with growth in the number of regulatory institutions, has resulted in “divergent interests of federal, state, regional and local authorities,” wrote the Academies in the 2021 report. as a whole. [52]

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The VALID Act & 21st Century Cures 2.0: What Industry Needs to Know

Arnold Porter

Diana DeGette (D-CO), would establish a new regulatory framework for the review and approval of diagnostic tests ( introduced text ) ( section-by-section summary ). The Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act of 2021 (H.R. 2209), introduced for the second time by Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), Rep.