VOLUME 25, NUMBER 2
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MARCH/APRIL 2008
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Free Riding | Do Voluntary Programs Work?
HEADNOTE: It is now clear that voluntary programs cannot reliably maintain the status quo, let alone create significant progress. Some companies do not play by the rules. Some skim off the public relations benefits. Meanwhile, the actions of these laggards and braggarts raise charges of “greenwashing,” besmirching companies that really are making environmental improvements.
By Richard MacLean
Executive Director, Center for Environmental Innovation
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Book Excerpt | Plugging-in to Progress
HEADNOTE: A Brookings Institution scholar provides a series of imagined memoranda to the next president exploring what it would take for the United States to achieve “Freedom from Oil.” In this excerpt, the author declares that plug-in hybrid vehicles are a “game-changing technology” that could dramatically reduce oil dependence, helping to protect national security and fight global warming.
By David Sandalow
Brookings Institution
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Cover Story | EPA at Low Ebb
HEADNOTE: The Bush administration openly marginalized the Environmental Protection Agency from its first days in office, according to this interest group head. Under its current management, the agency is more quietly undercutting its ability to protect public health by slowing down rulemaking while accelerating the interests of automobile and chemical manufacturers.
By Jeff Ruch
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
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Profile | Leaving No Footprints
HEADNOTE: Erin Meezan directs carpet manufacturer Interface’s aggressive sustainability strategy. The goal: nothing less than zero environmental impact by 2020. The route: mimicking the way nature produces flooring and its ability to recycle its components.
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The Forum | Advancing Toxicity Testing While Reducing the Use of Animals
HEADNOTE: Along with the advancement of our modern system of environmental, health, and safety protection has been a commensurate increase in the need to evaluate the toxicity of chemicals that enter commerce as well as the health effects of environmental and workplace pollutants. But animal studies can be inexact, as researchers attempt to extrapolate results to human biology. And the use of animals raises ethical concerns because of the suffering it causes. Does more toxicity testing mean more animal testing, or will new methodologies reduce the need for animals?
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THE FEDERAL BEAT
By Margaret Kriz
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AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
By Robert N. Stavins
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AROUND THE STATES
By John Pendergrass
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SCIENCE AND THE LAW
By Craig M. Pease
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IN THE COURTS
By Richard Lazarus
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VIEW FROM THE EU
By Gabrielle H. Williamson
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THE BUSINESS OF ENVIRONMENT
By Elliott P. Laws
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NOTICE & COMMENT
By Stephen R. Dujack
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IN THE LITERATURE
By G. Tracy Mehan III
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ELI REPORT
By Brett Kitchen
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THE PROFESSION
By Scott Schang
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CLOSING STATEMENT
By Leslie Carothers
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