by Craig Slatin
A forthcoming special issue of New Solutions, A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, slated for publication in late fall 2011, advances a bold new vision and approach to solving the problem of toxic chemicals and their adverse impacts. Through a collection of 12 articles, this issue brings together leading voices from academia, labor, environmental and public health organizations, and businesses to highlight the widely agreed-upon need for the development and use of safer chemicals in our modern society. The authors illustrate how forward-thinking organizations are already successfully working toward this objective by changing policy, shifting markets, building new coalitions and transforming science.
Articles in this issue will include:
· Envisioning and Achieving a Safer Chemicals Future, Jessica N. Schifano
· Chemicals Policies for the Future, Ken Geiser
· Precautionary Policies in Local Government: Green Chemistry and the Promotion of Safer Alternatives, Debbie O. Raphael and Chris A. Geiger
· The Drive for a Safer Chemical Policy in the United States, Michael E. Belliveau
· Business and Advocacy Groups Create a Roadmap for Safer Chemicals: The BizNGO Principles for Chemicals Policy, Mark S. Rossi, Beverley Thorpe, and Cheri Peele
· The Business Case for Transitioning to Safer Chemicals, Roger McFadden
· Civil Society Actions for a Toxics Free Future, Joe DiGangi
· Chemicals Policy in the 2008-2009 President’s Cancer Panel Report, Richard Clapp
· Designation of Higher Hazard Substances Under the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA): Lessons From the First Four Years (2007-2010), Rachel I. Massey, Heather Tenney, and Elizabeth Harriman
· Systematic Promotion of Substitution of Hazardous Chemicals on an International Level – The Approach of the European Project “SUBSPORT”, Lothar Lissner and Dolores Romano
· The Science of Green Chemistry and its Role in Chemicals Policy and Educational Reform, Amy S. Cannon and John C. Warner