Richard Liroff

Richard Liroff is the Executive Director of the Investor Environmental Health Network.

Richard A. Liroff, Ph.D., is founder and director of the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN). IEHN is a collaboration of investment managers that advocates for safer corporate chemicals policies to grow long-term shareholder value and reduce financial and reputational risks to companies. The business case for corporate safer chemicals policies, a list of shareholder resolutions on safer chemicals policies, and a roster of participants can be found on the IEHN website, www.iehn.org.

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Nanomaterials: Why Your Company Should Sweat the Small Stuff
By Richard Liroff, September 09, 2009
Nanomaterials are an industrial revolution in a microcosm with the potential to yield extraordinary health, environmental and other global social benefits. But they're substantially unregulated,...
Why the Adage 'the Dose Makes the Poison' Can Be Toxic to Corporate Chemicals Policy
By Richard Liroff, June 24, 2009
There probably are lots of senior execs who've been comforted when their chief scientist has told them that since "the dose makes the poison," they shouldn't sweat some new study about a chemical...
Don't Know Your Company's Toxic Footprint? Ignorance Will Not Be Bliss
By Richard Liroff, May 13, 2009
The noose continues to tighten around toxic chemicals in products and corporate supply chains. Notwithstanding the protestations of some trade associations about their products' safety, it's...
Reducing Pesticide Use: How to Cut Costs and Be a Green Hero
By Richard Liroff, April 27, 2009
It's a myth that reducing pesticide use has to mean higher costs and fewer choices. Leading companies have been systematically reducing pesticide use, thereby cutting costs while also lowering...
When the 'FDA Approves Salmonella,' How Should Your Company Respond?
By Richard Liroff, March 16, 2009
The satirical newspaper The Onion recently reported the FDA has approved salmonella and included a mock quote declaring salmonella "not nearly as destructive or fatal as you'd think." The piece...
Is Your Company Ready for CPR?
By Richard Liroff, February 17, 2009
That’s Chemical Policy Reform -- a long overdue, systematic and fundamental overhaul of the basic approach the U.S. federal government takes to managing hazards from chemicals in products. Richard...
Going Beyond Compliance to Manage Business Risks from Toxic Products
By Richard Liroff, March 02, 2008
Facing a lack of leadership from Washington, states from coast to coast and forward-looking companies like Wal-Mart and Consorta are creating business-led solutions to help industry getting out in...
Knocking Out Toxics: Why Companies Are Being Pressed to Use Safer Chemicals GreenerDesign.com
By Richard Liroff, November 10, 2006
Companies are facing accelerating pressures to adopt safer chemicals principles and practices and to cajole, encourage, or force their supply chains to join them. The demands stem both from...

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