Perspective
Nov. 1, 2012
Concerns swell over green chemistry
An untested program that fails at the outset would overwhelm the DTSC and impacted parties and would undoubtedly do extensive damage to the long-term goals of green chemistry. By Ward Benshoof of Alston & Bird LLP
Until recently, the field of environmental law has consisted mostly of a series of statutes and regulations focused on two things: (a) controlling future releases of hazardous substances into the environment, and (b) cleaning up the consequences of historic releases, occurring before our system of current controls was adopted.
Over the course of the last several decades, as compounds such as TCE, PCBs and MTBE have demonstrated substan...
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