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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

Importantly (and often misunderstood), he meant not that we are gods, but instead that technologies have given humanity powers that had previously been exclusive to the gods. I thus wrote the paper “ Earth System Interventions as Technologies of the Anthropocene ,” which was published (open access!)

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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. Biological recycling, or biorecycling, is an emerging technology that uses microbes, such as bacteria or fungi, to break down plastic into its basic components for reuse. Bergeson and Carla N. On November 21, 2022, the U.S.

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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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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. The shift toward commercialization of seed began in earnest. Source: Philip H. per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48

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Policy News: September 12, 2022

ESA

Lawmakers are working to pass a short-term spending package to keep the government open in October. Congress appears likely to pass a short-term spending measure keeping the government funded through Dec. The current government fiscal year ends Sept. In this issue: Congress. Executive Branch. International. Joe Manchin (D-WV).

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Biden Administration Issues New Sanctions and Trade Restrictions on Chinese Technology Entities and Adds 34 Chinese Entities to the Entity List

Arnold Porter

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently added eight Chinese technology firms to the Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) list. The nine newly designated CMIC entities are: DJI Technology Co., Megvii Technology Limited , an image-recognition software firm.

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

ESA

Maine law banning PFAS takes effect. This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. International. Scientific Community.

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