"Lec 14-The Quiet Revolution in Plastics"Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255) Plastics are omnipresent but minimally understood and regulated in the United States. The lecture focuses on the dangers that chemicals in plastics pose to human health, particularly via leaching into food and water. Plastics are regulated by the Toxic Substance Control Act, which gives the Environmental Protection Agency the responsibility of testing to ensure that plastics do not adversely affect human health. When plastics can leach into food, the Food and Drug Administration can demand testing. Professor Wargo shows how oversights have led to limited labeling of hazardous plastics, which results in consumers having limited means of protecting themselves from harm. 00:00 - Chapter 1. An Introduction to The Plastics Problem 06:49 - Chapter 2. Plastics: Omnipresent in Everyday Life 33:05 - Chapter 3. Where Does All that Plastic Go? 43:49 - Chapter 4. How Plastics Have Escaped Regulation Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2010.
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Lec 1 - Introduction to the Course - Introduction to the Course - Environmental Politics and Law
Lec 2 - Principles & Strategies in Environmental Law
Lec 4 - Nuclear Secrecy and Ecology
Lec 5 - Preparing for War: NEPA
Lec 6 - Marine Food-Chains: Mercury
Lec 8 -Chemically Dependent Agriculture
Lec 9 -Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm
Lec 10 - Safe Drinking Water: Science and Law
Lec 11 - Safety Claims and Free Speech: Preemption and Defamation
Lec 12 - Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety
Lec 12 -Vehicle Emissions and Public Transit
Lec 16- Evolution of Tobacco Law
Lec 17 -Land Use and Conservation Law: The Adirondack History
Lec 18 -Property Rights and Public Lands Management
Lec 19 - Land Use Law and Property Rights
Lec 20 - Managing Coastal Resources in an Era of Climate Change
Lec 21 - Certification: Design and Green Architecture
Lec 22 -Past and Future of Nuclear Power