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The Washington Post reports:
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $4 million in grants to study the health and environmental risks posed by manufactured nanomaterials -- the new and invisibly tiny materials that are revolutionizing many industries but whose effects on living things remain largely unknown.Want to know how this could end? Look at how the EPA has sought to regulate biotech.The grants to a dozen universities mark the first significant federal effort to assess the biological and medical implications of nanotechnology, a burgeoning field of science that is expected to become a trillion-dollar industry within the next decade.
Glenn Reynolds thinks this is on the right track. He thinks EPA is considering the right scientists' opinions and carefully balancing different types of nanotech. That's because Glenn Reynolds has never dealt with a Federal agency from the inside.
No action for four years, then heavy regulation under the new Dem administration, beginning in late-2009. Oh, and the new regulatory proposals will be based on recommendations by the same scientific panel Reynolds is on...only long after Reynolds himself becomes disgusted and quits and it is taken over by activists.
Bet on it.
Posted by: Some Guy at November 16, 2004 05:04 PM