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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 |
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010
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Hope or Hype? | The Selling of Sustainability
Headnote: Those upbeat green messages by companies, environmental groups, and governments may be blurring the real challenges facing future generations.
By Richard Maclean
Competitive Environment Inc.
With Another View by Sustainability Handbook author William Blackburn |
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A Second Act | TSCA, Redux
Headnote: The Toxic Substances Control Act has been interpreted by agency and court decisions over the course of three decades. It is time for Congress to take the law into its own hands.
By Blake A. Biles and Lawrence E. Culleen
Arnold & Porter LLP
With Another View by EPA Assistant Administrator Steve Owens |
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Cover Story | The Molecular Economy
Headnote: Pretty much as predicted, the long awaited convergence of nanotechnology and biotechnology has arrived. Can environmental protection, still cleaning up the last Industrial Revolution, avoid the perils while realizing the promises of manufacturing at an atomic scale?
By David Rejeski
Woodrow Wilson Center Science, Technology, and Innovation Program
With Another View by Lowell Center for Sustainable Production co-director Ken Geiser |
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Testimony | The Legatees
Headnote: Senators Mark Udall (right) and Tom Udall, in taking the baton as this generation’s environmental leaders, reflect on the challenges of our time.
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The Forum | Resolved: Using Nuclear and Coal Power in an Environmentally Friendly Manner Is the Path Forward in Controlling Climate Change
Headnote: Representatives of the coal and nuclear power industries, proponents of greater use of those sources, face off with skeptics ranging from environmental interests to federal and state regulatory agencies who need to meet the demands of energy consumers in homes and industry.
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THE FEDERAL BEAT
By Margaret Kriz Hobson
“There is a need for independent and objective science to put the hyperbole to rest.” |
AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
By Robert N. Stavins
The move to greener power doesn’t have to be completed immediately. |
AROUND THE STATES
By John Pendergrass
Sustainable energy utilities focus state efforts and leverage alternative programs.. |
SCIENCE AND THE LAW
By Craig M. Pease
The conceit is that standing, admissibility, and remedies are matters of law, not fact. |
IN THE COURTS
By Richard Lazarus
From the closing of the frontier to new frontiers in environmental protection. |
THE DEVELOPING WORLD
By Bruce Rich
International agencies continue to finance major new investments in fossil fuels in the developing world. |
THE BUSINESS OF ENVIRONMENT
By Elliott P. Laws
EPA has worked hard to expand the reuse market that this decision threatens. |
NOTICE & COMMENT
By Stephen R. Dujack
Plasticity, or how difficult is it to get the public involved with change. |
IN THE LITERATURE
G. Tracy Mehan III
On managing water demand. |
ELI REPORT
Senators Mark and Tom Udall take the mantle from their fathers. |
RESEARCH BRIEF
By Elissa Parker |
CLOSING STATEMENT
Leslie Carothers
Taking the interests of women and the environment to heart. |
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Proponents of Coal, Nuclear Power Tout Technology to Government, Public Interest Skeptics
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