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Risk Versus Precaution: Environmental Law and Public Health Protection

Elliott, E. Donald
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Charnley, Gail
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Environmental regulation in the United States has been characterized by short-term decisions with unknown or unanticipated long-term public health consequences. Some propose to use our inability to predict possible long-term consequences of environmental health regulation as a justification for replacing risk assessment with the “pre-cautionary principle†as the dominant paradigm for making regulatory decisions.
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/4649