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APHIS Releases New Strategic Plan for 2023-2027, Includes Biotechnology Objectives

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Objective 5 is “Ensure the development of safe agricultural biotechnology products using a science-based regulatory framework.” Objective 3 is “Mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.” Objective 3 is “Mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.”

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Arnold & Porter's Environmental Litigation Practice Named 2022 'Law Firm of the Year' by Best Lawyers

Arnold Porter

The firm's Environmental practice also specializes in climate change and renewable fuels issues, including counseling, permitting, and litigation. Biotechnology Law. Natural Resources Law. The firm's national Environmental practice has been consistently ranked in the top tier by Best Lawyers since 2011. Energy Law.

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For the first time, genetically modified trees have been planted in a U.S. forest

Environmental News Bits

Living Carbon, a biotechnology company, hopes its seedlings can help manage climate change. Read the full story at Grist. But wider use of its trees may be elusive.

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

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Support for resilient and diversified seed systems is critical in the upcoming Farm Bill and can also be a direct pathway to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and climate change strategies. Source: Philip H. To strictly analyze the cost of seed, consider that corn farmers who paid $26.65

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Policy News: September 12, 2022

ESA

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House progressives, led by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are opposing the permitting deal, citing concerns that the reforms would help fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. Joe Manchin (D-WV). Now what? –

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

ESA

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. Global Change Research Program.

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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

ESA

Todd Young’s (R-IN) Endless Frontiers Act from the last Congress, Biden endorses investing $50 billion to create a new technology directorate in the National Science Foundation to fund research on topics like semiconductors and advanced computing, advanced communications technology, advanced energy technologies and biotechnology.

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