Environmental History and Policy
Program Manager: Jody Roberts
Program Assistant: Jennifer Dionisio
Program Researcher: Gwen Ottinger
Research Fellow: Susan Saltzman

The Environmental History and Policy Program explores the ways in which societies seek to achieve a balance between the production and use of new chemicals and the inherent risks to human and environmental health. That is, through historical and contemporary analyses we aim to understand the various ways in which societies seek to exert control over chemicals.

Upcoming conference
2008 Alternatives Forum: Spotlight on Ingredients: Exploring the whys and hows of in vitro testing of chemical ingredients

Recent conferences
Villanova Environmental Law Journal Symposium: "Low-Dose Toxicity: Scientific Controversies, Regulatory Efforts and Potential Litigation"

2007 Cain Conference: "New Chemical Bodies: Biomonitoring, Body Burden, and the Uncertain Threat of Environmental Endocrine Disrupters"

Podcasts
CCHP staff members are frequent contributors to CHF's Distillations, a weekly science podcast that brings you extracts from the past, present, and future of chemistry.

On the Smithsonian Web site Gwen Ottinger discusses technology's role in environmental justice.

On the Science and Society podcast Jody Roberts discusses body burden and endocrine disrupters.

Studies in Sustainability White Papers
"Assessing Community Advisory Panels: A Case Study from Louisiana's Industrial Corridor," by Gwen Ottinger

"New Chemical Bodies: A Conversation on Human Biomonitoring and Endocrine–Disrupting Chemicals," by Jody Roberts

Chemical Heritage articles
"Bracing for the Ban," by Jennifer Dionisio and Jody Roberts: Exploring the impact of the European Union's Seventh Amendment to the Cosmetics Directive on the cosmetics industry and its chemical suppliers

"Monitoring Our Chemical Bodies," by Jody Roberts: The challenges and possibilities of biomonitoring

"The Curious Case of Atrazine," by Jody Roberts: How the EPA ruling on the herbicide sparked debate on the health and environmental effects of chemicals and how these claims are determined