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The comprehensive resource from the Duke Initiative for Science & Society for engaging with the latest developments in science and technology policy.
Provides non-binding recommendations regarding the development and review of regenerative medicine therapies.
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Feb 19 2019SciTalk
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)Proposes the coverage of some CAR-T gene therapies to treat specific types of cancers under Medicare.
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Mar 15 2019Last Action
Feb 15 2019SciTalk
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Revises Obama era DOE regulation requiring Comprehensive Oil Spill Response Plans for route segments traveled by High Hazard Flammable Trains (HHFTs).
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Feb 14 2019SciTalk
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Department of Energy (DOE)Revises definitions of general service lamps (GSLs) and general service incandescent lamps (GSILs) subject to energy efficiency standards, with the effect of excluding multiple categories of consumer light bulbs from those standards. Reverses two final rules issued by the Obama Department of Energy (DOE) on January 19, 2017.
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Apr 12 2019Last Action
Feb 11 2019SciTalk
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Department of Energy (DOE)Repeals a section of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that opened a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling, and required the Department of the Interior to hold two drilling rights lease auctions by 2027.
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Feb 11 2019SciTalk
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House of Representatives
Outlines the President's "American AI Initiative" which defines priorities for the research, development, and standardization of Artificial Intelligence in the federal government and society.
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Feb 11 2019SciTalk
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Executive Office of the PresidentProposes to determine that it is not “appropriate and necessary” to regulate hazardous air pollutants, including mercury, emitted from power plants, based on significant downward revision of estimate of benefits from 2012 Mercury Air Toxics Rule.
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Mar 25 2019Last Action
Feb 7 2019SciTalk
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Resolves that it is the duty of the federal government to create a Green New Deal that will achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, create millions of good, high-wage jobs, to invest in US infrastructure and industry to sustainably meet current challenges, and to secure clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment.
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Feb 7 2019SciTalk
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House of Representatives
Aids industry drug product development of depot buprenorphine products for treating opioid use disorder by sharing the Food and Drug Administration's current thinking of the subject.
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Feb 6 2019SciTalk
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)Identifies opportunities, challenges, and prospective policies exist for the US to lead the development of artificial intelligence research and applications.
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Feb 5 2019Last Action
Feb 5 2019SciTalk
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White HouseFinalizes nonattainment area and ozone transport region (OTR) implementation requirements for the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS).
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Feb 4 2019SciTalk
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Federal court ruling temporarily blocking construction of Keystone Pipeline XL until completion of further environmental review.
Latest Action: Federal government appeals court's decision in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Feb 1 2019SciTalk
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U.S. District Court for the District of MontanaProposes the coverage of some CAR-T gene therapies to treat specific types of cancers under Medicare.
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Mar 15 2019Last Action
Feb 15 2019SciTalk
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)Revises Obama era DOE regulation requiring Comprehensive Oil Spill Response Plans for route segments traveled by High Hazard Flammable Trains (HHFTs).
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Feb 14 2019SciTalk
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Department of Energy (DOE)Repeals a section of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that opened a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling, and required the Department of the Interior to hold two drilling rights lease auctions by 2027.
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Feb 11 2019SciTalk
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House of RepresentativesOutlines the President's "American AI Initiative" which defines priorities for the research, development, and standardization of Artificial Intelligence in the federal government and society.
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Feb 11 2019SciTalk
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Executive Office of the PresidentProposes to determine that it is not “appropriate and necessary” to regulate hazardous air pollutants, including mercury, emitted from power plants, based on significant downward revision of estimate of benefits from 2012 Mercury Air Toxics Rule.
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Mar 25 2019Last Action
Feb 7 2019SciTalk
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Resolves that it is the duty of the federal government to create a Green New Deal that will achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, create millions of good, high-wage jobs, to invest in US infrastructure and industry to sustainably meet current challenges, and to secure clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment.
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Feb 7 2019SciTalk
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House of RepresentativesFederal court ruling temporarily blocking construction of Keystone Pipeline XL until completion of further environmental review.
Latest Action: Federal government appeals court's decision in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Feb 1 2019SciTalk
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U.S. District Court for the District of MontanaAims to help reduce U.S. carbon pollution by up to 45% from 2016 levels by 2030, and over 90% by 2050, by pricing carbon at $15 per metric ton, increased by $10 every year.
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Jan 24 2019SciTalk
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House of RepresentativesPost-Fukushima Nuclear Regulatory Commission safety rule that requires U.S. commercial nuclear reactors to maintain resources and procedures to cool a reactor’s core and spent fuel pool, as well as preserve the reactor’s containment, following a disabling event, among other safety requirements.
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Jan 24 2019SciTalk
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)Summarizes the proceedings of the Second International Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing.
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Jan 8 2019SciTalk
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
Supports the United States’s leadership in the research and development of quantum science and technology.
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Dec 21 2018SciTalk
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House of RepresentativesAddresses federal prison reform issues including the support of evidence-based medication-assisted treatment for prisoners with heroin and opioid use disorder under supervised release, and restricting solitary confinement for juveniles.
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Dec 21 2018SciTalk
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SenateRequests views on whether the NRC should resume rulemaking started under President Bush in 2006 and suspended under President Obama in 2010 to codify requirements specifically addressing ground water protection at uranium in situ recovery (ISR) facilities, rather than subject them to regulations for conventional uranium mills.
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Mar 4 2019Last Action
Jan 31 2019SciTalk
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)Proposes the coverage of some CAR-T gene therapies to treat specific types of cancers under Medicare.
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Mar 15 2019Last Action
Feb 15 2019SciTalk
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)Rolls back 2015 EPA rule requiring all new coal-fired power plants to employ carbon capture technology to control greenhouse gas emissions.
