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Article: Winning nods from naysayers: an elusive goal. (chemical industry and the environment) (Responsible Care)
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- Chemical Week
- Article date:
- December 11, 1991
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WINNING NODS FROM NAYSAYERS: AN ELUSIVE GOAL
In the view of many chemical industry observers and those in the environmental community, public accountability - how to measure performance and progress - is the battle line in the struggle to implement Responsible Care. At stake, they say, is the program's credibility and fate.
"Accountability will be critical to success," says Vincent Covello, director of Columbia University's (New York) center for risk communication. While Responsible Care's self evaluations "are a good beginning," he suggests, "long-term there has to be credible third-party audits or evaluations by neutral parties." Says Peter Sandman, ...