Manufacturers and their legal counsel face a constantly evolving business and legal landscape where the lines between regulatory compliance, corporate social responsibility, and product marketing increasingly are blurred. In addition to traditional facility-based regulations governing releases to air, water, and land, manufacturers must monitor and comply with federal, state, and local regulations governing product content, labeling, and reporting, both domestically and abroad.

The intermingling of regulatory and social trends is particularly notable with respect to evolving concepts of the public’s “right-to-know” – particularly as the concept applies to actual risk (requiring the presence of hazard and exposure) versus perceived risk (often resulting from extremely low-level exposure scenarios). Early efforts to incorporate “right-to-know” principles into policy focused on risk communication and management. Over time, however, right-to-know policies have evolved to focus on highlighting and eliminating perceived risks rather than managing actual risks. Precautionary measures, in turn, are giving way to calls for bans and boycotts.

This webinar reviews the evolution of right-to-know policy in the United States with an eye toward understanding when and how the public “right-to-know” became so disconnected from principles of risk and risk management and what this shift means for environmental and economic policy in 2013 and beyond.

Bloomberg BNA’s webinar is designed to:
•Review how federal and state law and jurisprudence have shaped right-to-know policy
•Describe the variety of right-to-know-based environmental, health, and safety policies
•Explain the influence of right-to-know concepts and campaigns in the marketplace
•Discuss how right-to-know policy is affecting the current debate of chemical control reform

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