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Law Library of Congress Publishes Report on Selected Issues in Biotechnology Regulation

Nanotech

The comparative summary provides the following information: The post Law Library of Congress Publishes Report on Selected Issues in Biotechnology Regulation appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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Canada to Recognize Right to a Healthy Environment

Manning Law

The Government of Canada announced today that it will modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) and, in so doing, will recognize Canadians’ right to a healthy environment. In Canada, jurisdiction to regulate the environment is shared between the provinces and the Federal Government.

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GAO Publishes Science & Tech Spotlight on Biorecycling of Plastics

Brag

Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a Science & Tech Spotlight on biorecycling of plastics. To what extent do current laws and regulations appropriately address concerns regarding the industrial use of engineered enzymes for biorecycling, while still allowing for their development? Bergeson and Carla N.

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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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Two China Based Companies Banned as a Result of Forced Labor

Greenbuilding Law

and its subsidiary Chenguang Biotechnology Group Yanqi Co. The practical effect is that beyond the requirements of federal law, a groundswell of companies acting on moral grounds are not installing Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sourced solar panels (that may have been imported before or have circumvented the ban).

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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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Developments in US Antitrust Litigation—2020 Year in Review

Arnold Porter

The direct purchasers' suit, filed in 2012, alleged that GSK and Teva violated the antitrust laws through their settlement agreement to end a patent dispute over GSK's anti-epilepsy drug Lamictal and Teva's generic equivalent, lamotrigine.[[N:Complaint, and its subsidiary, AbbVie Biotechnology, Ltd. 3d 184 (3d Cir. Abbvie Inc.

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