Chemicals Policy

Adam Abelkop 

• Lecturer in Law and the Teaching Fellow of the L.L.M. Program in Environmental Law & Policy, Stanford Law School
• Ph.D. IU O’Neill School
  • Dissertation title: "Regulation and Litigation as Complements in Environmental and Public Health Governance"

Ágnes Botos

• Managing Director GHS/REACH 
• Ph.D. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
  •  Dissertation title: "Industrial Chemical Regulation in the European Union and the United States: A Comparison of REACH & the Bipartisan TSCA Reform Bills"

IU School of Public Health 

• James Klaunig, Professor
• Kan Shao, Assistant Professor

O’Neill School

• Katie Fledderman
• Jason Hewitt
• Mallory Mueller
• Jon Sperl
• Evan Tyrrell

• Lucas Bergkamp, Hunton & Williams, Brussels, Belgium
• Bryan W. Brooks, Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco Texas
• Anna Gergely, Steptoe & Johnson, Brussels, Belgium
• George Gray, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
• Gary E. Marchant, College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
• Mallory L. Mueller, SPEA, IU Bloomington
• Cornelis J. van Leeuwen, KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Marco Vighi, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

• Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals: Technical Aspects, Policies, and Practices, (Adam Abelkop, Todd V. Royer, John D. Graham), CRC Press (2015)
• "Regulation of Chemical Risks: Lessons for Reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act from Canada and the European Union,” (Adam Abelkop, John D. Graham), Pace Environmental Law Review. Vol. 32, 108–224 (2015)
• “Principles and Tools of Chemical Regulation: A Comment on ‘The Substitution Principle in Chemical Regulation: A Constructive Critique,’” (Adam Abelkop, John D. Graham), Journal of Risk Research. Vol. 17, 581–86 (2014)
• “Chapter 15: How Can REACH be Improved?” (Adam Abelkop, Ágnes Botos, Lois R. Wise, John D. Graham), The European Union REACH Regulation for Chemicals: Law and Practice(Lucas Bergkamp ed.), 390-95 (2013)
• “Scientific and Policy Analysis of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals: A Comparison of Practices in Asia, Europe, and North America,” (Adam Abelkop, Lucas Bergkamp, Bryan W. Brooks, Anna Gergely, John D. Graham, George Gray, Kees van Leeuwen, Gary E. Marchant, Mallory L. Mueller, Todd V. Royer, Marco Vighi), SPEA White Paper (2013)
• “Regulating Industrial Chemicals: Lessons for U.S. U.S. Lawmakers from the European Union’s REACH Program,”  (Adam Abelkop, Ágnes Botos, Lois R. Wise, John D. Graham), Environmental Law Reporter: News & Analysis, 11042–65 (2012)
• “Lessons from the EU’s REACH Program,” heinonlineRisk.pdf (Adam Abelkop, John D. Graham, Lois R. Wise), Comment on “Risk vs. Hazard” by Ragnar Löfstedt, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Vol. 2, 181–82 (2011)
• “Lessons from the EU’s REACH Program,” (Adam Abelkop, John D. Graham, Lois R. Wise), European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2 (2) 181-182, (February 2011)
• “Why Governments Need Guidelines for Risk Assessment and Management,” ( John D. Graham),  Risk and Regulatory Policy: Improving the Governance of Risk, OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform, 237-246, (2010)
• “Is There a Universal Precautionary Principle?” (John D.Graham, Sarah Olmstead), Controversies in Globalization, (Peter M. Haas, John A. Hird, Beth McBratney, eds.), CQ Press, Washington, D.C., 115-124 (2009)
• “Empirical Evidence for Risk-Risk Tradeoffs: A Rejoinder to Hansen and Tickner,” (John D.Graham, Jonathan B. Wiener), Journal of Risk Research, 11 (4) 485-490, (December 2008)
• “Decision-Analytic Refinements of the Precautionary Principle,” (John D. Graham), Journal of Risk Research, 4 (2) 127-141, (2001)
• “A Future for the Precautionary Principle?” (John D. Graham), Journal of Risk Research, 4 (2) 109-111, (2001)
• “The Federal Government’s Agricultural Health Study: A Critical Review with Suggested Improvements,” (G.M. Gray, B.D. Goldstein, J. Bailar, D.L. Davis, E. Delzell, F. Dost, R.S. Greenberg, M. Hatch, E. Hodgson, M.A. Ibrahim, J. Lamb, T. Lavy, J. Mandel, R. Monson, M. Robson, R. Shore, J.D. Graham), Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 6 (1) 47-71, (2000). Originally published by Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, (December 1998)
• “Going Beyond the Single Number: Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment to Improve Risk Management,” (Kimberly M. Thompson, John D. Graham), Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 2 (4) 1008-1034, (1996)
• “How Risks Are Identified and Assessed,” (John D. Graham, Lorenz Rhomberg), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Volume 545, 15-24 (1996)
• “Noncancer Risk Assessment: A Probabilistic Alternative to Current Practice,” (Sandra J. Baird, Joshua T. Cohen, John D. Graham, Alexander I. Shlyakhter, John S. Evans), Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 2 (1) 79-102, (1996)
• “Noncancer Risk Assessment: Probabilistic Characterization of Population Threshold Doses,”(Sandra J. Baird, Joshua T. Cohen, John D. Graham, Alexander Shlyakhter, John S. Evans), Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology,  2 (1) 79-102, (1996)
• “A Distributional Approach to Characterizing Low-Dose Cancer Risk,” (John S. Evans , John D. Graham, George M. Gray), Low-Dose Extrapolation of Cancer Risks: Issues and Perspectives, (Stephen Olin, William Farland, Colin Park, Lorenz Rhomberg, Robert Scheuplein, Thomas Starr, James Wilson, eds.) ILSI Press, Washington, D.C., 253-274 (1995)
• “A Survey of Residual Cancer Risks Permitted by Health, Safety and Environmental Policy,”(March Sadowitz, John D. Graham), Risk: Issues in Health, Safety and Environment, 17-35 (Winter 1995)
• “Confronting Superfund Mythology: The Case of Risk Assessment and Management,” (Katherine D. Walker, March Sadowitz, John D. Graham), Analyzing Superfund: Economics, Science, and Law, (Richard L. Revesz, Richard B. Stewart, eds.), Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., 25-53 (1995).Originally presented at the New York 14 University School of Law Conference, Superfund Reauthorization: Theoretical and Empirical Issues, (December 3, 1993)
• “Historical Perspective on Risk Assessment in the Federal Government,” (John D. Graham), Toxicology, Volume 102, 29-52 (1995)
• The Role of Epidemiology in Regulatory Risk Assessment, (John D. Graham, ed.), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1995)
• “Legislating Acceptable Cancer Risk from Exposure to Toxic Chemicals,” (Alon Rosenthal, George M. Gray, John D. Graham), Ecology Law Quarterly, 19 (2) 269-362 (1992); reprinted in An Environmental Law Anthology, (eds., Robert Fischman, Maxine Lipeles and Mark Squillace), Anderson Publishing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio,  391-413 (1996)
• “A Distributional Approach to Characterizing Low-Dose Cancer Risk,” (John Evans, John Graham, George Gray, Robert Sielken, Jr.) Risk Analysis, 14 (1) 25-34 (1994)
• “Superfund Reform: Reducing Risk through Community Choice,” (John D. Graham, March Sadowitz), Issues in Science and Technology, Summer, 35-40 (1994)
• “Use of Probabilistic Expert Judgment in Uncertainty Analysis of Carcinogenic Potency,”(John S. Evans, George M. Gray, Robert L. Sielken Jr., Andrew E. Smith, Ciriaco Valdez Flores, John D. Graham)  Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 20, 15-36 (1994)
• “The Challenge of Risk Characterization: Current Practice and Future Directions,” (George M. Gray, Joshua T. Cohen, John D. Graham), Environmental Health Perspectives Supplements, 101 (6), 203-208 (1993)
• “Chemicals vs. Microbials in Drinking Water: A Decision Sciences Perspective,” (Susan W. Putnam, John D. Graham), Journal of the American Water Works Association, Volume 85, 57-61 (1993)
• “Formaldehyde Science: From the Laboratory to the Regulatory Arena,” (Susan W. Putnam, John D. Graham), Keeping Pace with Science and Engineering, (Myron F. Uman, ed.) National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 189-220 (1993)
• Harnessing Science for Environmental Regulation, (John D. Graham, ed.), Praeger, Westport, Conn. (1991)
• “Weight of the Evidence on the Human Carcinogenicity of 2, 4-D,” (M.A. Ibrahim, G.G. Bond, T.A. Burke, P. Cole, F.N. Dost, P.E. Enterline, M. Gough, R.S. Greenberg, W.E. Halperin, E. McConnell, I.C. Munro, JA. Swenberg, SH. Zahm, J.D. Graham), Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 96, 213-222 (1991)
• “The Potential Health Benefits of Controlling Hazardous Air Pollutants,” (Mary Jean Sawey, David R. Holtgrave, John D. Graham), Villanova Environmental Law Journal, Volume 1, 473-490 (1990). Adapted from Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, “Health Benefits of Air Pollution Control: A Discussion,” (February 27, 1989)

Research supported in its entirety by the American Chemistry Council.