The concept of a universal precautionary principle apparently has its origins in early German and Swedish thinking about environmental policy, particularly the need for policymakers to practice ...

In a rare show of unity on May 29, 2025, The U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled 8-0 in favor of limiting the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) The court recognized that despite many ...

In 2020, the European Commission introduced the principle into the sustainable finance regulatory framework including for climate indexes, as labelled ‘Paris-aligned’ or ‘climate transition’ ...

On Sept. 22, 2014—the day after an estimated 300,000 persons attended the Climate Change march in New York City 1 —the New York City Bar Association held a program Leading by Example: State and Local ...

As representatives of one of the civil society organizations mentioned in Miller and Conko's Commentary on the precautionary principle (Nat. Biotechnol. 19 , 302–303, 2001 ), we would like to respond ...

Rosalind Malcolm does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The problems of the “precautionary principle” received a thorough airing from its critics at a December 12 forum sponsored by the George C. Marshall Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank ...

This press release is available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. Killer cranberry juice? The government of Denmark thinks so. Using a new legal concept, “the precautionary principle,” which is based on the ...

[Based on forthcoming article in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 14 Issue 1, Winter 2013, http://mjlst.umn.edu] In my previous column I noted ...

Sio Silica’s recent Environment Act proposal shows that Manitoba is losing sight of past progress toward a harmonious relationship with nature. Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com Read ...