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February 15, 2008
Nanotechnology Field Observations: Scouting the New Industrial West
“Note from the Field” article for the Journal of Cleaner Production.
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February 11, 2008
Know Your Nano? Free iPods To Those With High “Nano IQ”!
Five free iPod Nanos are up for grabs! To celebrate the launch of our redesigned website, the Project is sponsoring a “Nano-IQ” contest. Winners will be randomly selected from those who successfully complete the five-question quiz. - UPDATE: Winners Announced!
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February 6, 2008
European Commission Gives Grant To Investigate Transatlantic Oversight Of Nanotechnology
Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Chatham House, Environmental Law Institute and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, have been awarded a $587,000 European Commission grant to conduct an international research project on regulating nanotechnologies in the European Union and United States
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January 28, 2008
EPA Takes First Step In Filling Nanotech Information Gaps
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published today in the Federal Register its plan for the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The plan takes a positive first step by offering industry, non-governmental organizations and other groups the opportunity to voluntarily submit safety data on engineered nanoscale materials.
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January 8, 2008
Food and Drug Law Institute(FDLI), Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Co-Sponsor Major Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy
Nanotechnology was incorporated into more than $50 billion in manufactured goods last year, according to Lux Research. By 2014, the market will grow to $2.6 trillion. Yet, despite this rapid commercialization, no nano-specific regulation exists anywhere in the world. Most regulatory agencies remain in an information-gathering mode—lacking the legal and scientific tools, information and resources they need to adequately oversee expediential nanotechnology market growth.
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January 4, 2008
Looking Back on the First Two Years
This report reviews the Project’s major activities, key contributions, and most significant impacts over its first two years.
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December 3, 2007
Feynman, Voltaire and Beckett on Nanotechnology
This presentation examines flaws in the assertion by the U.S. government that the existing regulatory system is adequate to address risks from nanotechnologies and explores actions that need to be taken to help foster successful commercialization of nano products.
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events/archive
October 9, 2007
Responsible NanoCode
You are invited to the US launch of an international consultation on a new Code for Responsible Nanotechnology aimed principally at businesses and research organizations.
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September 25, 2007
Poll Reveals Public Awareness of Nanotech Stuck at Low Level
National survey findings released today indicate that Americans’ awareness of nanotechnology remains low. Popular awareness is nearly as small as the tiny nanoscale materials and nano-enabled devices and products now flowing onto the market from this rapidly progressing technology that experts believe will usher in a new industrial revolution.
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August 8, 2007
Plenty of Clean Water at the NanoFrontier
A new podcast episode of Trips to the NanoFrontier examines how Eric Hoek and his engineering research team at UCLA are working to dramatically reduce the cost and energy needed for desalination and wastewater treatment. A companion issue of the NanoFrontiers newsletter Developing Story: Nanotechnology and Low-Income Nations examines the question of whether developing nations will fully share in the anticipated benefits of nanotech.
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August 2, 2007
Does EPA Have an Adequate Strategy to Oversee Nanotechnologies?
Can it get needed information through a proposed program where companies voluntarily submit details about the nature of the nanomaterials they are using to manufacture products and about their steps to ensure safety? What incentives, if any, exist for firms to take part in this new EPA program? And how appropriate is the agency’s approach for classifying nanoscale substances under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)?
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July 26, 2007
Where Does the Nano Go? New Report on End-of-Life Regulation of Nanotechnologies
Please join us on July 26, 2007, for the release of this report featuring the authors, along with Leslie Carothers, President of the Environmental Law Institute, and David Rejeski, Director, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. The discussion will focus on the end-of-life regulation of nanotechnologies.
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July 9, 2007
Tomorrow’s Green Nanofactories
Viruses are notorious villains – a blight on both humans and their computers. A new episode in the Trips to the NanoFrontier explores how materials scientists Angela Belcher is improving their behavior, coaxing viruses and other microorganisms to self-assemble nanomaterials into a functional electronic devices.
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July 1, 2007
Where Does the Nano Go? End-of-Life Regulation of Nanotechnologies
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June 21, 2007
Environmental Defense and DuPont to Jointly Launch Risk Framework
Environmental Defense and DuPont invite you to the launch of the Nano Risk Framework, a tool for evaluating and addressing the potential risks of nanoscale materials.
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