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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

As a scholar of governance, I see that these new ESIs tend to share some social, political, and ethical challenges: The goal of environmental governance : Are they to restore pre-industrial conditions as much as possible, to help humanity sustainably thrive, to compensate for past wrongs, or something else?

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USDA Celebrates Inaugural National Biobased Products Day, Announces 2022 Award Winners for BioPreferred® Program “Excellence in Procurement”

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Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the kickoff of the inaugural National Biobased Products Day and highlighted the accomplishments of people and organizations working to improve sustainability within the federal government. ” The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funded innovative new USDA programs such as NIFA’s $9.5

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Although free seed distribution programs were immensely popular among farmers, emerging private seed breeders and horticulturalists lobbied the federal government to end the program in 1924. Moreover, they have more potential to contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation via carbon sequestration. Source: Philip H.

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ESA Policy News: February 20, 2023

ESA

Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) will be the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research and Biotechnology. EPA : The draft annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory finds that U.S. House Agriculture Committee: Ranking Member David Scott (D-GA) announced the Democratic leadership of the committee. emissions increased 5.5%

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

ESA

Maine law banning PFAS takes effect. billion for investments in advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, clean energy technology, microelectronics and semiconductors, quantum information science and the U.S. White House Task on Scientific Integrity told hold a series of listening sessions.

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