The Origins of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Program

At the source: the origins of the Massachusetts toxics use reduction program and an overview of this special issue Original Research Article Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 19, Issue 5, March 2011, Pages 389-396 Michael Ellenbecker, Ken Geiser

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File Synopsis: Much has been written about the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Program. It has been heralded as a major pollution prevention success story. It has been lauded as a premier American example of the precautionary principle in action. It has been condemned by the American chemical industry trade association as “bad for the chemical industry”. And it has been praised by the Ford Foundation and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as an award-receiving example of innovation in government (Harvard Kennedy School, 2005). Download file...