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Prospering with Precaution offers an understanding of how precautionary action benefits workers; how it does not impose damaging costs on industry; how precautionary policies can stimulate technological innovation; and how economic logic supports timely action to avoid massive health and environmental costs.

Late Lessons from Early Warnings: The Precautionary Principle 1896-2000 is the product of a European Environment Agency study on the precautionary principle. It describes a one-hundred-year history of policies repeatedly failing to protect human health and the environment, despite early scientific warnings of possible harm, including asbestos, PCB's, and "mad cow" disease.

CAL/EPA Environmental Justice Recommendations
The California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA), through a legislative mandate, convened an Advisory Committee on Environmental Justice to guide the implementation of EJ in California. The Advisory Committee met for two years to determine specific ways for the Cal EPA to implement environmental justice in California throughout its boards, offices, and departments. Precautionary action is a core of the recommendations proposed by the Advisory Committee. Currently the Cal EPA is using these recommendations to advance EJ in California. The Recommendations document was finalized on September 30th, 2003.

"Precaution as Policy: How advocates are asserting a new standard to protect the environment" - Bhavna Shamasunder, Race, Poverty, and the Environment. The Precautionary Principle is emerging as a useful policy tool and organizing principle for the environmental justice movement. The Principles of Environmental Justice, the foundation of the environmental justice movement, clearly asserts the universal right to protection from toxic pollutants, and the right of low-income communities and communities of color to meaningfully participate in the decisions that affect our lives and environments.

The State of the Evidence: What is the Connection Between Chemicals and Breast Cancer? summarizes the evidence - from experimental, epidemiological, body burden, and ecological studies - that suggests that synthetic chemicals must be factored in as a possible cause of breast cancer.

The Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) advocates the wise application of science to protect the environment and public health. Founded in 1994, SEHN serves as both a network and think tank for the environmental movement. Check out their collection of precautionary principle essays and articles including "And Then What? Attending to the Context of Our Innovations."

"Integrating Environmental Justice and the Precautionary Principle in Research and Policy Making: The Case of Ambient Air Toxics Exposures and Health Risks Among Schoolchildren in Los Angeles"-by Rachel Morello-Frosch, Manuel Pastor Jr., and James Sadd
Children of color, namely Latinos and African-Americans, bear the highest burden of estimated cancer and noncancer health risks associated with ambient air toxics exposures while they are in school. The implications of these study results for controversial policy decisions related to school siting and construction in urban districts are discussed within the context of environmental justice and the precautionary principle.
Annals, AAPSS, 584, November 2002