Precedent on Preemption California already has stricter automobile emission standards and during the Obama Administration it received approval to impose even harsher greenhouse gas emission standards on automakers. The Trump Administration is ready to withdraw the waiver and likely assert federal preemption over the state’s emissions standards. It will be widely decried by environmentalists but those in food and agriculture should use it as precedent for Washington similarly preempting disparate state-level standards on everything from the size of chicken cages to diverse labeling requirements. Automakers are no different than food makers in finding the discordant standards are a cost and logistical barrier, except Detroit has deeper...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.