Certified Green: The Law and Future of Environmental Labeling

Environmental marketing has grown dramatically in response to consumer preferences for environmentally sensitive goods. The availability of adequate information on the environmental attributes of goods could enable consumers collectively, through their purchasing decisions, to persuade manufacturers to adopt environmentally superior product designs. In this Article, the author analyzes the legal and policy implications of contemporary environmental marketing and demonstrates how current statutes, nonbinding FTC guidelines, and common law remedies fail to ensure the accuracy and usefulness of environmental information in the marketplace. The Article also identifies pressures which could undermine the integrity of independent environmental certification programs. In addressing these issues, the author examines broad questions of administrative rulemaking and adjudication, federalism, commercial speech, and the interplay of common law, statutory, and market remedies. Ultimately, the author argues for federal legislation that would increase government oversight of environmental marketing, and for a coordinated approach to evaluating the environmental attributes of consumer goods

Why Are the Courses You Take in High School Important for Your Health at Midlife?

Using data from the High School and Beyond cohort of high school sophomores, PRC trainee Jamie M. Carroll, PRC faculty research associate Chandra Muller, and colleagues show that taking advanced courses in high school appears to improve health 30 years later. To improve our population’s health, policymakers could encourage more access to advanced coursework in high school as well as pedagogical strategies that empower independent thinking.Population Research Cente

Genomics and environmental regulation : science, ethics, and law /

To reduce the deleterious effects of environmental contamination, governments across the world have enacted regulations broadly conceived for entire populations. Information arising out of the Human Genome Project and other cutting-edge genetic research is shifting the policymaking process. This fascinating volume draws on experts from academia, government, industry, and nongovernmental organizations to examine the science of genomic research as applied to environmental policy. The first section explores environmental policy applications, including subpopulation genetic profiling, industrial regulations, and standardizing governmental evaluation of genomic data. The second section assesses from multiple angles the legal framework involved in applying genomics to environmental regulation. In the third section, the contributors review closely the implications of genomic research for occupational health, from disease prevention and genetic susceptibility to toxicants, to workers' rights and potential employment discrimination. A fourth section explores the bioethical and philosophical complications of bringing genetic data and research into nonclinical regulatory frameworks.Genomics and Environmental Regulation points to ways in which information on toxicology and genetics can be used to craft more precise and efficient regulations.Includes bibliographical references and index.Genetics and workplace issues / Paul A. Schulte -- Advances in human genome epidemiology: implications for occupational health and disease prevention / Marc Weinstein -- Occupational health and discrimination issues raised by toxicogenomics in the workplace / Mark A. Rothstein -- Genetic susceptibility and radiological health and safety / Kenneth L. Mossman -- Conceptual and normative dimensions of toxicogenomics / Andrea O. Smith and Jason Scott Robert -- Environmental disease, biomarkers, and the precautionary principle / David B. Resnik -- Rights and the exceptionally vulnerable / James W. Nickel -- (Almost) equal protection for genetically susceptible subpopulations: a hybrid regulatory-compensation proposal / Carl Cranor -- Protecting people in spite of, or thanks to, the "veil of ignorance" / Adam M. Finkel.Toxicogenomics and environmental regulation / Gary E. Marchant -- Addressing genomic needs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Kerry L. Dearfield ... [et al.] -- Application of genomics for health and environmental safety of chemicals: an industry perspective / Richard D. Phillips -- Toxicogenomics and the public interest: technical and sociopolitical challenges / John M. Balbus -- Challenges in applying toxicogenomic data in federal regulatory settings / Lynn L. Bergeson -- Genetic data and toxic torts: intimations of statistical reductionism / Andrew Askland and Gary E. Marchant -- Genomics and environmental justice: some preliminary thoughts / Gary E. Marchant and Jamie A. Grodsky -- Setting air quality standards in the postgenomic era / Gary E. Marchant --To reduce the deleterious effects of environmental contamination, governments across the world have enacted regulations broadly conceived for entire populations. Information arising out of the Human Genome Project and other cutting-edge genetic research is shifting the policymaking process. This fascinating volume draws on experts from academia, government, industry, and nongovernmental organizations to examine the science of genomic research as applied to environmental policy. The first section explores environmental policy applications, including subpopulation genetic profiling, industrial regulations, and standardizing governmental evaluation of genomic data. The second section assesses from multiple angles the legal framework involved in applying genomics to environmental regulation. In the third section, the contributors review closely the implications of genomic research for occupational health, from disease prevention and genetic susceptibility to toxicants, to workers' rights and potential employment discrimination. A fourth section explores the bioethical and philosophical complications of bringing genetic data and research into nonclinical regulatory frameworks.Genomics and Environmental Regulation points to ways in which information on toxicology and genetics can be used to craft more precise and efficient regulations