From: | meuser@mapcruzin.com |
Date: | Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:41:25 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] ACA too good to be true? |
======== HI - I reserve the right to remain cynical about our right-to-know on this one. Tomorow (friday 03/24/00) the Alliance for Chemical Awareness (ACA) will debut their website: http://www.chemicalawareness.org I do not have full details yet, but I'm sure that they will be forthcoming. I do know that the ACA is a new coalition of chemical producers, chemical trade associations, chemical users, government agencies and NGO's. Their initial effort will be focused on HPVs. Larry Games of Procter & Gamble is the chair of ACA. I imagine that Environmental Defense (formerly EDF) and CMA (chemical manufacturer's association) will be players since they have partnered on HPV's (see http://www.mapcruzin.com/scruztri/docs/news020300a.htm ). They have a six-part mission according to a Vision and Mission Statement: 1. Develop a risk-based framework for assessing uses of chemicals to identify applications with greater and lesser risk; 2. Facilitate inclusion of exposure data in risk assessments and develop a library of accepted screening-level exposure models; 3. Identify mechanisms for data sharing among companies that can enhance chemical risk assessment while minimizing concerns about confidentiality and liability; 4. Establish information resources that a platform and tools for communication with the public about risks associated with products and facility operations; 5. Encourage transparency of methodologies and processes used for risk assessment and sharing of chemical data that is relevant to health and environmental risk; and 6. Coordinate US risk communication efforts with international ones. Sounds great but is it too good to be true? It's interesting to note that this alliance comes on the heals of the EPA shutdown (note that even though the EPA site is now open, many databases are not available). One could surmise that the void left by epa, and our access to raw environmental data, will now be filled by industry orchestrated interpreted data. We'll see. Mike Michael R. Meuser, Environmental Sociologist meuser@mapcruzin.com http://www.mapcruzin.com/ Environmental Communication, GIS, RTK Environmental & Sociodemographic Research "Making Data Make Sense" Join RMP-Watch. Send a blank message to: rmp-watch-subscribe@topica.com You can find archived listserve messages on the CPEO website at http://www.cpeo.org/lists/index.html. If this email has been forwarded to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a message to: cpeo-military-subscribe@igc.topica.com _________________________________________________________ Enlighten your in-box. http://www.topica.com/t/15 | |
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