By Porter Wright on One June 9, the President’s Office of Budget and Management, United States Trade Representative, and Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a joint memorandum directed to all Executive branch departments and agencies entitled "Policy Principles for the U.S. Decision-Making Concerning Regulation and Oversight of Applications ofNanotechnology and Nanomaterials." The Policy Statement is important because it … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on On 01/13/2011, the Office of Science and Technology Policy published a notice in the Federal Register extending the time for filing comments for the Draft NNI Strategy for Nanotechnology Related Environmental, Health and Safety Research to 01/21/2011. The 2011 Draft Strategy is designed to replace and update the 2008 Strategy and is the product of a series … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on My new Nanotechnology Law & Business article — "An Industry Driven Approach to EHS Issues: ‘The NanoSafety Consortium for Carbon’" — can be found here. The abstract follows. The NanoSafety Consortium for Carbon (NCC) is an industry-driven group formed to proactively address potential environmental, health, safety, and regulatory concerns related to the commercia-lization of its … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Here is the Summer 2010 edition of NanoLawReport. Heading out to the beach for a few days to top off the summer. :)… Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on This article originally appeared on the National Nanomanufacturing Network’s InterNano website on August 25, 2010. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. Massachusetts’ Office of Technical Assistance and Technology (OTA) recently released its “OTA Technology Guidance Document: Nanotechnology – Considerations for Safe Development” which has been in development for the past couple of … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Following California’s lead, Wisconsin’s legislature recently formed a special committee to study the potential regulation of nanomaterials from an environmental, health, and safety perspective. Our readers will be interested in the committee’s membership and focus: Special Committee on Nanotechnology Chair: Rep. Chuck Benedict Vice Chair: Sen. Mark Miller Legislative Council Staff: Mary Matthias, Pam Shannon, and Larry … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on John Monica, a partner in the DC office of Porter Wright and frequent contibutor to this blog, was announced as a new Contibuting Editor for Environmental, Health and Safety and Regulation for InterNano, a project of the National Nanomanufacturing Network. As Contibuting Editor, John will be tasked with informing InterNano readers about the latest in EHS and regulatory … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on There are often developments in the nano legal world that do not fit into our traditional Nanotechnology Law Report format, yet might be of interest to some of our readers. You can now find these short postings and other musings on twitter.com/nanolaw . Additionally, you can find me on linkedin under "John Monica," as well as on our new … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The Nanotechnology Health and Safety Forum which is being sponsored by Battelle, Porter Wright, University of Washington, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and several others is taking place on June 8 – 9, 2009 at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle, Washington. Keynote speakers include: Dr. Leroy Hood, Co-Founder of the Institute for Systems Biology; Dr. … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) just released its newest project/tool, the Nano-EHS Database Analysis Tool. To quote ICON, "This web tool allows you to obtain a quick and thorough synopsis of our Environment, Health and Safety Database using two types of analysis. The first is a Simple Distribution Analysis (pie chart) which compares categories within a … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Sorry for coming a little late to the party on this one, it slipped past us until recently. Back in March the Government Accountability Office, the agency that investigates tax dollar spending for Congress, released a report entitled "Nanotechnology: Better Guidance Is Needed to Ensure Accurate Reporting of Federal Research Focused on Environmental, Health, and … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on On November 13, 2006, the International Council for Nanotechnology (ICON) published its recent survey results: “A Review of Current Practices in the Nanotechnology Industry.” While the authors of the study admit the size of their survey was too small to provide statistically significant results, the article, nonetheless, provided insightful information on current global nanotechnology environmental, health, … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Earlier today, two top nanoscientists — Dr. Andrew Maynard, Chief Science Advisor, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson Center and Dr. Sally S. Tinkle, Assistant to the Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health — made a presentation at the Woodrow Wilson International Scholar Center announcing their new article appearing … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on International Association of Nanotechnology 2386 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95825 1750 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 Tel. 916-529-4119, Toll Free 1-800-766-6008 Fax. 916-244-7029 Email: info@ianano.org Web site: http://www.ianano.org Press Release Press contact: Diana Rudé, Director, Government Relations November 7, 2006 (916) 529-4119 San Francisco. The International Association of Nanotechnology (IANANO) sponsored a panel … Continue Reading
