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  • Read more: Breaking the Mold: Law and Mold Remediation after a Natural Disaster
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    Breaking the Mold: Law and Mold Remediation after a Natural Disaster

    By Nicolas Wilhelm, JD We’re in the midst of the hurricane season here on the East Coast, and with hurricanes come a host of health-related concerns from emergency preparedness to the clean-up after a disaster. One of the issues rarely discussed in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Sandy —two of the costliest natural disasters…

  • Read more: Health in All Policies: Unfunded mandate?
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    Health in All Policies: Unfunded mandate?

    By Joshua Waimberg, JD Beginning in the early 2000s, there was a push in the public health world for jurisdictions and localities in the United States to adopt a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach similar to recent initiatives in Europe. At its core, HiAP is a collaborative approach to improve the public’s health by…

  • Read more: Biosimilars – In The Pipeline or Still a Pipe Dream?
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    Biosimilars – In The Pipeline or Still a Pipe Dream?

    By Jonathan Larsen, JD, MPP and Adrienne R. Ghorashi, Esq. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first biosimilar for use in the United States in March 2015. The approval came after several years of regulatory process development authorized by the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation (BPCI) Act of 2009, a component of…

  • Read more: Tracking Oil and Gas Laws
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    Tracking Oil and Gas Laws

    For three and half years, the Intermountain Oil & Gas BMP Project has been working on a collection of datasets and maps at LawAtlas.org that focus on water quality, water quantity, and air quality statutes and regulations within oil and gas development in the United States, specifically related to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (better…