Wednesday, 10 March 2010

doing searches for enviro law
finding some great schools
http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/alpha/e/environmentallaw.html
international resource database

need to look up chemicals for presentation on 4/20

ideas
bioaccumulation as concept
and precursor to Prop 65

prop 65's modern interp
connect science to the law

huge ground that  needs to be covered here

heterocyclic amines--national cancer institute, tokyo study, london study
acrylamide--discovery, atty gen attempted regulation

pthalates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pthalate
and their regulation---dvd box, toy recall
cadmium in acrylic dentures

kids toys plastic
plastics and heat and cold

styrofoam and a municipal regulation approach and how LA is behind the times

plastics and endocrine disruption

kinds of plastic
#
are any safer

nurdles
fish food absorbtion/marination

pesticide runoff in water supply affects organic food supply

chemistry of food--aminos, b vit deficiency and hallucinatory toxic breakdown

lead
paint, pipes, regulation

lead particulate in leaded bus fuel in oregon re-retrofit too expensive

bleach
chlorox attempts to suck in sierra co.  see nation article
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100322/hari/2

statuatory reg
FIFRA
EPA created took over USDA lawsuits when pesticides designated human food issue prior to 1970

transdermal absorption
nanoparticles---sunscreen
waves of marketing
trends
paraben free

PCB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl

greenwashing as PR
actionable
off-gassing and VOCs

ewaste and toxic mining in terms of colonialistic racist health damage
amnesty international reports

fish extinction

harm to environment from CDS

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