Green Chemistry Roundtable #2
March 18 - 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the New Hazlett Theater – Whether you're in industry, the environmental movement or are interested in public health and worker and food safety, you need to be at this event.
Who's looking after the registration and safety testing of industrial chemicals? Do you know? Is it government, industry, environmental and consumer groups?
Now's your chance to find out and ask questions of key organizations who will be shaping a new U.S. chemical policy.
Michael P. Walls, Vice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs, American Chemistry Council will be facing off with Jason Rano, Legislative Analyst, Environmental Working Group at our March 18 debate on Green Chemistry, Policy Issues and the reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
There will be audience Q & A at this debate so here's your chance to have your say!*
For background information on TSCA Reform, download this Chemical Regulations paper from BNA Inc. co-authored by BY Charles M. Auer, Blake A. Biles and Lawrence E. Culleen
Moderator:
Gordon Mitchell, Director, William Pitt Debating Union, University of Pittsburgh
Debaters:
Michael P. Walls, Vice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs, American Chemistry Council
Dr. Janet M. Mostowy, Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs
Bayer MaterialScience
Jason Rano, Legislative Analyst, Environmental Working Group
Maryann Donovan, Ph.D., MPH, Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Panel of Questioners:
Terry Collins, Ph.D., Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Maryann Donovan, Ph.D., MPH, Director, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Center for Environmental Oncology
Dr. Janet M. Mostowy, Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs
Bayer MaterialScience
Michael Wright, Director of Health, Safety and Environment, United Steel Workers
This is the second roundtable in a series of four planned in 2010 through a collaboration between the Rachel Carson Homestead Association and Champions for Sustainability (Sustainable Pittsburgh).
We are grateful to the William Pitt Debating Union of the University of Pittsburgh for their help with this event.
Light snacks will be served.
Thank you for your interest in the RCHA and this very important subject. Green Chemistry is happening now and is already changing the way major corporations and green-tech start-ups are designing the products we use every day. With the upcoming reform of TSCA - originally passed in 1976 - is there a need to put greater emphasis on safety and public health when it comes to a new chemicals policy in the United States?
More Info: Register Here
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Carnegie Library Super Science Saturday
April 24 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. – Family Fun: Super Science Saturday for Ages 8-12
Carrick Carnegie Library, 1-2:30pm April 24
Join Rachel Carson Homestead and Sense of Place Learning for a "Wet
and Wild" eco-adventure! What causes mudslides? What happens to
rainwater when it falls on a parking lot? Find out when you meet
Queen Flora and help her protect the environment and save the Kingdom
by making good eco-decisions. Make the right choices and you'll
become an honorary "Good Steward of the Earth". Then decorate your own
flower pot and start planting the seeds of a bright and beautiful
eco-future.
More Info: Carrick Carnegie Library
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