Mary E. Maxon

Jul 25, 2023 | issues.org | Mary E. Maxon |Vol. XXXIX

In “Racing to Be First to Be Second” (Issues, Spring 2023), Mary E. Maxon ably describes the regulatory challenges to the emerging bioeconomy in the United States. The Biden administration has recognized explicitly the transition from a “chemical” economy to one in which inputs, processes, and products are largely the result of “biology,” and has chosen to help facilitate that transition. The United States regulates products, not technologies.

May 22, 2023 | issues.org | Mary E. Maxon |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XXXIX

By Mary E. Maxon A bioeconomy that delivers environmental, economic, and social benefits requires a twenty-first-century regulatory framework. In laboratories and start-ups across the United States, a new era in biology is already changing the ways in which food, fuel, and materials can be produced.