According to Collaborative Economics, a local consultancy, its workforce is now distributed among at least seven different industries, including biotechnology and environmental science.

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Browner was responsible for gratuitous EPA regulations that have slowed the application of biotechnology to agriculture and environmental problems for more than a decade.

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Several environmental groups no longer say that medical biotechnology, which offers the best hope for curing many diseases and the only hope of beating genetic disorders, should be outlawed.

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In the agriculture sector alone, Monsanto and its competitors are spending billions of dollars annually on agricultural biotechnology research, pursuing traits that make crops higher yielding and more resistant to various environmental stresses, and to make grains with increased nutritional value.

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