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Wildfire Statistics
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-01 · Resources · 1,286 words · PDF available
Wildfires are unplanned fires, including lightning-caused fires, unauthorized human-caused fires, and escaped fires from prescribed burn projects. States are responsible for responding to wildfires th...
Debating the Public Debt Clause
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-01 · Posts · 2,396 words · PDF available
As early as June 5, 2023, according to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, the federal government could face a “binding” statutory debt limit. If the debt limit were to bind, the Secretary would b...
Amgen v. Sanofi: Supreme Court Holds Patents Claiming Antibody Genus Invalid as Not Enabled
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-01 · Posts · 1,454 words · PDF available
In Amgen v. Sanofi, the Supreme Court held that Amgen’s patent on a class of antibodies used to treat high cholesterol was invalid under patent law’s enablement requirement. Justice Neil Gorsuch’s una...
Is That Climate Change? The Science of Extreme Event Attribution
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-01 · Reports · 7,118 words · PDF available
Climate change attribution is the study of whether, or to what degree, human influence may have contributed to extreme climate or weather events. Scientists can now estimate whether human activities h...