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Informational Regulation, The Environment, And The Public, Katrina F. Kuh
Informational Regulation, The Environment, And The Public, Katrina F. Kuh
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Informational Regulation, the Environment, and the Public generates a typology to analyze how public disclosure functions in informational regulation. In the environmental context, informational regulation compels the public disclosure of environmental information without mandating substantive environmental outcomes in the expectation that disclosure itself will prompt beneficial change in the environmental context. Application of the Article's typology reveals that the emperor has no clothes: Communication of environmental information to the public is considered central to policies employing informational regulation, but the information produced pursuant to these measures largely fails to reach or be understood by lay individuals. For example, empirical data …
Fda As Food System Stewards, Margot J. Pollans, Matthew F. Watson
Fda As Food System Stewards, Margot J. Pollans, Matthew F. Watson
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) is one of the primary regulators of the U.S. food system, yet it all but ignores the food system's vast environmental footprint. Although the agency is not technically an environmental agency, it could and should view redressing the food system's significant environmental footprint as part of its health and safety mission. In this Article, we review FDA's history of National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) compliance. This history affirms our hypothesis that FDA does not view its own work as environmental. The review, along with assessment of some of FDA's core food programs, reveals that …