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Failing for Forty Years: What the Poison Papers Tell Us About the EPA and How to Reform It

September 28, 2018 By Jonathan Latham, PhD

In this lecture Dr. Jonathan Latham, Director of the Bioscience Resource Project, talks about the importance of the 20,000-document Poison Papers collection and how it exposes problems with both the internal culture of the EPA and its legal framework that prevent precautionary decision-making, even when the science clearly points to danger. The documents known as the Poison Papers were collected over a period of 40 years by Carol Van Strum, Diane Hebert, Eric Coppolino, and Peter von Stackelberg, who served as custodians of the documents, gathering, storing, scanning, and distributing them. The Park Foundation, The Bioscience Resource Project, Center for Media and Democracy, and the late Rosalind Peterson helped fund this endeavor.

https://lecture.ucsf.edu/ets/Play/0b4ef9a0f5af41fdb982aa4a1f0753f21d

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