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Environmental and Health Regulation in the United States and the European Union

Protecting Public and Planet

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  • © 2012

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  1. Mitchell P. Smith
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Divergent Regulatory Trajectories

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    Pages 1-21

  3. Chemicals Regulation: Courts Rule in the United States; Industry Ascendant in the EU

    • Mitchell P. Smith
    Pages 23-59

  4. Health Claims on Food Labels: Protecting Free Commercial Speech Versus Completing the Single Market

    • Mitchell P. Smith
    Pages 61-89

  5. Recycling of End-of-Life Vehicles: “Good Product Stewardship” in the United States; Producer Pays in the EU

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    Pages 91-123

  6. Regulatory Trade-Offs and Outcomes

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    Pages 125-140

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 141-195
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During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the United States increasingly has relaxed its regulatory posture in the face of critical challenges to public health and the environment. This is true for regulation of recycling of end-of-life products, including autos and electronic components; potentially hazardous chemicals; and health claims on food labels. Coincidentally, the European Union has gravitated toward more restrictive regulation in these very same areas. How might we explain these diverging regulatory trajectories of the world s two largest market economies in an era of rising public awareness of dangers to the public and the planet? The explanation derives not from cultural differences in willingness to tolerate risk, but rather from distinctive regulatory tradeoffs - between environment and competitiveness in the United States and environment, competitiveness, and integration in the EU.

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MITCHELL P. SMITH Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

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