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Priority of the agency now. I have one more question. You recently stated that the sole basis for recommendation to the ban of most widely used chemicals was cumulative Risk Assessment which found the majority of Citizens Advisory Panel recommendation which found the majority of risk associated with chemicals was from another chemical, dehp. Can you explain concerns for using cumulative Risk Assessment as a basis for such regulatory determination . Thank you. The chap and the proposed rule is of great concern to me has been of concern to me since the chap issued its report because i believe the chap report should have been a public should have been subject to public peer review at that point. From that point onto me the system and whole process has been flawed. The cumulative Risk Assessment youre talking about is one of my concerns in that the process thats used, thats not well accepted in the Scientific Community, cumulative Risk Assessment, so i think that goes to the process and va
With us a lot about this where you may not be certain what your calling is and in that case, keep experimenting. The flipside of that is there are many people, and if you push them on it, they will tell you they will say i dont know what my calling is but what i am doing is not that. And yet they dont have the courage to make the change. And so for me, the main lesson was when i knew that that was not my calling, it probably was i dont know, a year, a couple of years before i really owned that and said, you know what, im going to honor the fact i know this is not the right path for me. And you would pursue something else. Rich part of that transition for all of us is, the kernel of that notion of facilitating social change. We dont always know what the kernel is. Once we identify the kernel, the options that are likely to be more aligned become more clear. Gabriel for me, part of the inside i had came out of trying to create a little bit of distance from it and saying, ok, what is it i
Next, a conversation in on the latest in batter technology. Then, in conversation with biochemist craig venter. Then, the World Bank President. Next, a look at next Generation Battery Technology with washington correspondent steve levine and a director from argonne technology. Hosted by Atlantic Council. Jeffrey welcome everybody and good afternoon. Welcome to the Atlantic Council. We are pleased to have you all here today. I want to apologize in advance. We had some internet difficulties today. We will be passing microphones back and forth if it is not up and running by the time stephen and jeffrey start. Im sure it will all work out. I do want to emphasize that this is a very important event today. It is the inaugural event and in our new Technology Speakers series. One of the things that are new Global Energy center that we are emphasizing is the Critical Role that technology will play in helping us to meet clean Energy Challenges and also the geopolitical and International Ramifica
Invented, it is thought by people like jeff to have the greatest chance to do that. The trouble is that when youre going the stuff is called nmc, by the way. When you are trying to shift from nmc to nmc 2. 0 you just described it as watching the bowling pins fall. When you do that and those bowling pins fall, the architecture you set up in the house that you built, so to speak, turns into though as you drive home from here and half the front door is in the back door in the living room is in the bathroom and this really happens in that battery. I know that you are trying to get the atoms to stay in one place. But that is a very, very hard thing to do and the stakes of putting the two pieces together those stakes being so very, very high. And being so very, very hard to you get hucksters and liars basically, claiming that they have got the answer, and give me 50 million so i can develop it. I wanted to roll back the second question. This is one of the things i suffered personally in the