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A Spotlight on Advanced Nuclear after the White House Climate Summit– JD Supra, 30 Apr 21. -”…….. With the nuclear ban lifted by the Development Finance Corporation for investment in innovation projects, the U.S. government acknowledged the importance of nuclear in the transition to [?] clean energy in developing economies.  ………..  the Department of State announced the launch of its Foundational Infrastructure for the Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor Technology (FIRS...

commitments, President Biden pledged that the U.S. would cut its emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. This announcement dovetails into his larger promise to make the U.S. electricity sector carbon neutral by 2035 and the U.S. economy net zero by 2050. President Biden also assured that fighting climate change is an economic opportunity and coupled each proposed energy initiative with the confidence of good jobs. These goals will be virtually impossible to achieve without the use of nu...

29 April 2021 The US State Department has announced it is launching the  Foundational Infrastructure for Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor Technology (FIRST) programme, which will provide "capacity-building support to partner countries". As an initial investment, the department has committed USD5.3 million to support FIRST projects. (Image: state.gov) Leaders Summit on Climate that the Biden-Harris Administration hosted last week. "FIRST is a capacity-building programme designed to dee...

April 28, 2021 President Joseph R. Biden Jr., with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, kicks off the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate in Washington, D.C., on April 22. Courtesy of Close Authorship By the time President Joe Biden articulated it officially Thursday on Earth Day, the new U.S. pledge to halve emissions over the next nine years was one of the worst-kept secrets in climate action circles. Neither was it surprising that the U.S...

Now that Utah has a medical cannabis program (for its rollicking timeline, see City Weeklys "Get on the Canna-bus," published April 22), it should be easy for anyone to sign up and start smoking, right? Wrong. There are plenty more steps and hoops to jump through before youre able to even visit a pharmacy. As many City Weekly readers likely know, two of our neighboring states—Colorado and Nevada—have had recreational cannabis programs running for years (on top of their decades-old medical...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Today, we issued a Client Alert summarizing the White House Climate Change Summit from last week.  We are replicating it below for the benefit of our blog readers. President Biden hosted the Leaders Summit on Climate (Climate Summit) on 22-23 April. The Climate Summit is a next step in the President’s plan to employ a “whole of government” approach to combat climate change. The Climate Summit, which was attended by 40 world l...

On Day One, President Biden fulfilled his commitment to rejoin the Paris Agreement. Days later, he took executive actions to ensure we tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad – all while creating jobs and strengthening our economy. This week, he held a historic summit with 40 world leaders to show that America is back. Over the course of two days and eight sessions, President Biden convened heads of state and government, as well as leaders and representatives from international organizat...

Remember the heady days of 2018? When 53 percent of Utah voters passed Proposition 2, allowing the use of medical cannabis by qualified Utah patients? Voters even "green-lit" the growing of up to six plants for certain patients personal use. But voters taking such matters into their own hands woke up a sleeping bear—meaning Utahs governor and Legislature then sprang into action approving their own medical cannabis bill that circumvented Prop 2. And now, after years of advocacy, grueling work ...

ENISA Publishes Threat Landscape Reports for 2020 On October 20, 2020, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity ("ENISA") published a series of reports on the threat landscape in 2020. The reports focused on, among other things, malware, data breaches, ransomware attacks, information leakage, and phishing attacks. The reports identified and evaluated the top cybersecurity threats for the period of January 2019-April 2020. ENISA Publishes Guidelines for Securing the IoT Supply Chain On Nove...