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Article: San Francisco Adopts the Precautionary Principle
- Article from:
- Rachel's Democracy & Health News
- Article date:
- June 18, 2003
CopyrightCopyright Environmental Research Foundation Jun 18, 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted the precautionary principle as city and county policy June 17, 2003, a stunning and unprecedented breakthrough in the management of environmental matters in the U.S. The vote carried 8 to 2.
The long political road to the June 17 vote began when San Francisco mayor Willie Brown hired Jared Blumenfeld to head the city's Department of the Environment.[1] Under Blumenfeld's guidance, San Francisco government spent more than 2 years studying and debating how to integrate the precautionary principle into city- and county-wide policy. It was Blumenfeld who corraled the political resources to put precaution on the agenda in San Francisco.
But the ...