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The Legal Complexities of Deregulating Power Plant Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

It also said that states would have to make a plant-by-plant determination of what combination of technologies was feasible. That means that Trump will need much more heavily on factual disagreements about the availability of this technology. Those position will be harder to maintain. At oral argument about the Biden rule, D.C.

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How Trump’s War on Research Hurts the US Economy

Legal Planet

The researchers found that this wartime spending kicked off long-term development of technology centers that were still going strong decades later. They found evidence that “these changes were accompanied by growth in local industrial employment and firm creation in related high-tech industries.”

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How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored

Environmental News Bits

A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change. Posted in Books , Natural resources Post navigation Previous Previous post: Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? Trump’s first 100 days Trump 2.0

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House Passes Legislation to Increase Monitoring of Certain Foreign Investments

National Law Center

CFIUS also closely reviews investments in critical technologies. These technologies are created or used by certain U.S. USDA would join CFIUS reviews involving agricultural land, biotechnology companies (such as seed developers), or agricultural businesses involved in transportation, storage, or processing of agricultural products.

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Concerned about freedom of science and truth

Nature

Science is being jeopardized through censorship, politicization and misinformation, undermining its crucial role in addressing pandemics, malnutrition, poverty, climate change and artificial-intelligence ethics. per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Rent or buy this article Prices vary by article type from $1.95

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Warming Trends: Katherine Hayhoe Talks About Hope, Potty Training Cows, and Can Woolly Mammoths Really Fight Climate Change?

Inside Climate News

By Katelyn Weisbrod Critics are questioning claims by a start-up biotechnology company that a genetically engineered version of the woolly mammoth could help alleviate climate change and restore Siberia’s grassland ecosystem to its Pleistocene heyday. Colossal , a company founded by technology entrepreneur B.

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What does flattery do to our brains? Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

Frontiers

Writing in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology , a team of Chinese researchers has examined whether structure and efficacy of fish decalcified bone matrix (FDBM) has similar properties. Among them are many amphibian lineages, whose geographical distribution shifts as they seek new habitats in more suitable climates.