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Trends in Chemicals Law: An EHS Regulatory Perspective



Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Product Code - EHAU04
Speaker(s): Mark N. Duvall
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Environmental law traditionally has been media-specific, focusing on chemicals in air, water, and waste after their useful life has ended. Increasingly, concerns about chemicals in products have emerged as an important focus of environmental law. As such, it is important for practitioners to recognize the interrelationship of chemicals of concern issues across statutes, agencies, countries, and chemicals, and understand how regulatory and policy trends and reforms related to chemicals may impact this practice area.

This 90-minute webinar, featuring Mark N. Duvall, a principal with Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. in Washington, D.C., is designed to help you:

  • Understand federal law and policy on chemicals in products spanning various agencies, including the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, and Food and Drug Administration, among others
  • Gain insight about chemicals regulation under the Toxic Substances Control Act and the implications of significant efforts under way for TSCA legislation to make it a more streamlined, effective tool for regulating chemicals
  • Learn about chemicals management on the state level, such as Californias Green Chemistry Initiative as well as efforts in other states to address chemicals in products on a more comprehensive basis
  • Analyze the current approach to regulating chemicals through a case study on bisphenol A and consider how TSCA legislation and state green chemistry programs might impact future chemicals legal practice

Mark N. Duvall

Mark N. Duvall is a partner with Beveridge & Diamond P.C. in Washington, D.C., with more than two decades of experience working in-house at large chemical companies. His focus has been on product regulation at the federal, state, and international levels across a wide range of programs, and worker health and safety. He heads the firms Toxic and Harmful Substances/Toxic Substances Control Act practice. His experience under TSCA includes enforcement actions, counseling, rulemaking, advocacy, and legislative actions. He chairs the TSCA Dialogue Group, an informal group of companies that manufacture, import, distribute, and/or sell chemicals, and related trade associations that address possible legislation to amend TSCA and alternatives to legislation. He also has worked with counterparts to TSCA in Canada and Europe. Mark also is vice chair of the Committee on Pesticides, Chemical Regulation, and Right-to-Know of the American Bar Associations Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources.