Directors Roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments.
THE DIRECTORS & BOARDS Directors Roster--a quarterly record of new director appointments--is compiled from public and private sources by the editorial staff of DIRECTORS & BOARDS and is sponsored by Heidrick & Struggles. Please forward your directors' appointments to kmccarthy@directors-andboards.com. Submissions of new directors and appointments are...

Environmental justice in the tribal context: a madness to EPA's method.
I. INTRODUCTION II. MERCURY CONTAMINATION AND REGULATION A. Mercury Contamination B. EPA's Efforts to Regulate Mercury III. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE TRIBAL CONTEXT A. Tribes' Unique Legal and Political Circumstances B. Impacts to Tribes: Different in Degree, Different in Kind IV. EPA's ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ANALYSIS FOR THE CLEAN AIR...

Smart stability-indicating spectrophotometric methods for determination of binary mixtures without prior separation.
Ratio subtraction and isosbestic point methods are 2 innovating spectrophotometric methods used to determine vincamine in the presence of its acid degradation product and a mixture of cinnarizine (CN) and nicergoline (NIC). Linear correlations were obtained in the concentration range from 8-40 [micro]g/mL for vincamine (I), 6-22 Ng/mL for...

Dear EarthTalk: what are the environmental consequences of leather? Are there any good alternatives?
Leather is everywhere--from shoes and belts, to purses, wallets, jackets, furniture and car seats. Most probably assume that the leather that finds its way into our wardrobes and living spaces is a byproduct of the meat industry. But while cows are certainly the most popular animals to use for...

Coenzyme Q10 and cancer: enhancing treatment outcomes and improving chemotherapy tolerability.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Few lay people understand that one of the reasons chemotherapy does not cure more cancers is that its inherent toxicity limits the dosage that can be administered. What this means is that even if the cancer is slowly being eradicated by the chemo drugs, the...

Environmental crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Criminal versus Civil Penalties B. Enforcement C. Interaction with Other Criminal Violations II. GENERAL ISSUES A. Overview of Elements of Environmental Criminal Violations B. Liability 1. Corporate Liability 2. Individual Liability C. Common Defenses 1. Constitutional Defenses 2. Other Defenses D. Voluntary Compliance and Sentencing E....

The Al Qaeda weapons race continues: Osama Bin Laden's infamous 'sorcerer', Midhat Mursi Al Sayyid Umar, comes back from the dead and rekindles new fears that jihadists are pursuing chemical, biological and radiological weapons.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE EGYPTIAN KNOWN as Midhat Mursi Al Sayyid Umar was supposed to be dead, killed in a US missile strike on suspected terrorists in Pakistan's turbulent northwestern tribal belt on 13 January, 2006. Pakistani generals claimed he was one of several senior Al Qaeda figures...

Neither Gods nor goo: avoiding both utopian and apocalyptic forecasts for nanotechnology.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BY THE MIDDLE of the century, the inventor Ray Kurzweil suggests in his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near, human beings will live in perpetual clouds of nanobots, molecule-sized robots that spend each moment altering our microenvironments to our precise preferences. Over the longer term,...

Healthy schools: a major front in the fight for environmental justice.
I. INTRODUCTION II. HOUSING DISCRIMINATION SET THE FOUNDATION FOR TOXIC SCHOOLS A. Toxic Neighborhoods Lead to Toxic Schools III. HEALTH IMPACTS ON CHILDREN MUST BE A FACTOR IN SITING AND MAINTENANCE POLICIES A. Use of State Education Mandates as a Tool to Achieve Environmentally Healthy School Facilities B. San...

A comparison of green chemistry to the environmental ethics of the Abrahamic religions.
Green chemistry, or environmentally benign chemistry, is in its second decade as a recognized area of research. It is unique within chemistry because of its normative character. It rests on a set of principles, and the principles rest on certain ethical propositions. The ethical tenets that underlie green chemistry...