Obama Innovation Agenda Seen Stalling Push For New EPA Toxics Rules

摘要

President Obama's push to promote innovative technologies as a way to spur economic growth and job creation could stymie efforts by environmentalists seeking to force EPA to craft new toxics rules to strictly regulate emerging technologies like nanoscale materials and biotech crops, though EPA officials are downplaying the concern. In his State of the Union address earlier this year, the president called for policies that spur innovation. To "win the future," he said, "we need to out-innovate... the rest of the world .... The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation."