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"Where most other countries (including our own) make consumer and environmental policy decisions based solely on a cost/benefit analysis of risk, European Union countries approach chemical safety with a directive to "do no harm," even if an ingredient is only suspected of causing harm to human health. The European Union follows the "precautionary principle," a moral and political principle based on the idea that harm need not be completely established for corrective action to be taken." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "The FDA furthermore proposed an exemption for the cosmetics and personal care products industry from requirements of the National environmental policy Act, which requires that industries issue formal statements on possible toxic environmental impacts of their ingredients and products. The FDA's proposal evoked strong criticism from Senator Edward Kennedy and thankfully failed to pass. The FDA has mounted a series of damage-control initiatives, but these were more tokenistic than real." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The White House office of environmental policy chief of staff from 2001 to 2005 was Phillip Cooney the former chief lobbyist from the American Petroleum Institute. He joined Exxon two days after resigning from his post (following a media scandal about his rewording of documents on global warming). It's not surprising that commercial logging occurs in national forests and parks given the fact that, from 1998 to 2002, the head of the Forest Service was Mark Rey a former timber-industry lobbyist." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"European Trendsetters In the final presentation of the morning, on "Emerging Global Regulatory Trends," Ken Rivlin from the Allen and Overy law firm explained that although the US used to be a worldwide leader in environmental policy, the EU is now at the forefront of environmental policy-making. Europe doesn't look at cost/benefit analysis but instead uses the "do no harm" precautionary principle: "If it's going to cause a problem, don't do it." The US approach, in contrast, is: "If we want to do it, we're going to do it, unless there's a real good reason why we shouldn't." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"His book is a narrative, told through the people who are living with the daily effects of global warming, but it is also a damning critique of American environmental policy under the Bush administration: "Climate change begins and ends in America. We all know that the United States is the world's largest polluter, and yet the sheer weight of responsibility that Americans now carry of the world's plight has barely touched the national psyche." Let this book be the impetus for a much-needed wake-up call. The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer R." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In those days environmental policy in Europe was largely in the hands of individual governments. TSCA had the effect of prompting the continent's major chemical powers—West Germany, France, and the UK—to harmonize their varying regulations to conform more closely to those of TSCA. The rest of the European Community's then-nine other members quickly followed.14 TSCA's primary innovation at the time was in requiring that all chemicals developed from that point on be subject to review for their toxicity before reaching the market." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "If you are not RoHS compliant," comments Rick Goss, environmental policy director for the Electronic Industries Alliance, "your market is evaporating as we speak."21 The Electronics Industries Alliance (EIA), based in Washington, D.C., represents the major transnational electronics firms, with household names like Dell, Apple, Ericsson, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Panasonic, Sony, and Philips. The United States is finding itself surrounded by major trading partners adopting the European Union's regulations, prompting significant changes in the industry's approach to the poisons in their products." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"One notable example: Goldman Sachs has pledged to make $1 billion available for investments in renewable energy, as part of a comprehensive "environmental policy framework" that outlines both the business risks of current energy policy and the growth opportunities in clean tech. GF How to Pick the Winners ¦¦ So how should you decide where to put your money? If you're betting not only on your future security, but on the future of the planet, how do you decide where to put your chips?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National environmental policy Act, and also established the Environmental Protection Agency." You have to stand for something or you will fall for anything. So figure out what you stand for and don't back down, especially with your back at the gates of hell. But be smart. Here's a story that will illustrate what I mean. George Simeon was chief executive of Organic Valley, a cooperative of mostly small organic dairy, cattle, hog, and livestock farmers." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "I sent an e-mail from my laptop to the Carlson corporate Web site, asking them, "What is your company's environmental policy? Do you offer organic foods for breakfast? Do you use organic materials for your towels? If you would fill me in, that would be great." Eventually, the company sent me back a really disgusting note. "Dear Mr. Steinman, Thank you for contacting us via the office of Betsy Day, Director of Public Relations & Communications. Thank you for your feedback." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "It isn't like you in America with your Republicans and Democrats so that we never know what environmental policy America will carry out from one administration to the next. Our consistent and unwavering commitment to valuing the many services a healthy environment performs has been enormously successful. With this new policy in mind and its execution, the forests have quickly reverted back to canopy." This shows that you can recapture Eden. "When we started our land had only twenty percent canopy remaining. Today in 2005,1 am pleased to say it is fifty-three percent forest canopy." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Sound environmental policy, aimed at addressing both global warming as well as dependence on foreign oil and nuclear proliferation, can become one of our most powerful sticks. "Yes, there is an alternative to the Euro-wimps and the neocons, and it is the 'geo-greens,'" said Thomas L. Friedman in his January 30, 2005, New York Times column.13 I am a geo-green." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Political scientist William Grover (The President as Prisoner), evaluating environmental policy under Carter and Reagan as part of his penetrating "structural critique" of both presidents, concluded: OSHA appears caught in a cycle of liberal presidents—who want to retain some health and safety regulatory programs, but who also need economic growth for political survival—and conservative presidents, who focus almost exclusively on the growth side of the equation. Such a cycle will always tend to subordinate the need for safe and healthful workplaces to . . ." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"Charles Benbrook of the Northwest Science and environmental policy Center in Sandpoint, Idaho, points out that GM "herbicide-tolerant crops have increased pesticide use an estimated seventy million pounds over the first eight years of cultivation."24 We, the consumers, pay the price, while the fanners and agrochemical companies (who own both the patent for the new strain of soybean and the herbicide to which it is resistant) profit—and we are told that this technological advance is for the benefit of humanity!" - Patrick Holford, The New Optimum Nutrition Bible (Get the book.)

"The National environmental policy Act, 1970. The environmental policy Act established the federal policy of implementing all programs in a manner as environmentally sound as feasible. It required all federal agencies proposing activities with possible environmental consequences to complete an environmental impact statement, detailing the likely environmental effects of the action. The Clean Water Act, 1972 (Amended 1977 and 1987) The Clean Water Act seeks to regulate, in cooperation with the states, the quality of all American surface waters." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"Sugg, William, May 20, 2001, Maine Voices, "West Nile Virus Study," Blethen Maine Newspapers; Hallowell, Maine, Maine environmental policy Institute. 30b www.meepi.org/wnv/overkill.htm. 30c "Health Canada to Ban Some Deet Products," Pesticides and You, Summer 2002: 22 (2), 9. 30d "Chemical Watch Fact Sheet, DEET," Pesticides and You, Summer 2002:22 (2) 9-10. 31a NCAMP, Tech. Report, December 2000:15 (12) 4. www.chem-tox.com. 31b "West Nile Moves Bird to Bird in Lab," USGS Researchers: October 25, 2000. 703.648.4732. 32 Edmon, Dr." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"It is not industry itself that is unsustainable; there are examples of industries that produce good products, have an environmental policy, and are respectful of their workers. But we should always be wary of those who exploit this scrupulousness for promotional purposes, for they often conceal other far more serious unsustainabilities. It does not impress me if Monsanto channels a small percentage of its profits into sustainable projects: almost all multinationals do so nowadays, to salve their consciences." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

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