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CIEL recognizes
that understanding the complex and inter-related legal aspects of global
environmental challenges can inform and shape domestic policy. The negative
impacts of chemicals, climate change, and biotechnology cannot be confined
within any nation's borders, and no government acting alone can adequately
protect against these threats nor address their root causes. Because they
affect every American, and because the U.S. economy is a significant cause
of them, the United States plays a pivotal role in progress on these global
challenges.
For these reasons, CIEL's Chemicals Program includes an active U.S. domestic
component. With increasing retrenchment by the federal government, there
is a vital need to link the ideas and dynamism of state and local campaigns
with real political movement that is occurring in the international arena.
Simultaneously, efforts by the Congress and White House to stymie reform
campaigns by enacting anti-precautionary precedents in federal law and
by preempting effective state laws must be publicized and defeated. CIEL's
comprehensive expertise on the relevant international and domestic laws
of persistent organic pollutants and other dangerous chemicals, together
with our experience with global institutions and U.S. legislative processes,
provides a valuable resource for state and local activism and a counterweight
to federal obstructionism.
For more information, please view related Chemicals topics or contact
Glenn Wiser.
This page last modifed on 23 February 2005
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