Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

William Tarpeh, does just that, and his activities have won him a MacArthur Fellowship, or Genius Grant as it is commonly known, which is awarded to individuals who demonstrate exceptional originality and dedication in their creative pursuits.

William is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University, a fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and the principal investigator at the Tarpeh Lab.

He has a BS in chemical engineering from Stanford University and an MS and PhD in environmental engineering from UC Berkeley.

Today, William is here to share his remarkable work with us and why it matters for a healthier, more sustainable future.

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... of PhD students, professors, really just focused on impact.

And this has been work funded by the Woods Institute for the Environment, and a lot of things on, at Stanford that make us, um, able to do work that we think will be impactful, even if it's not, I would say, in addition to being academically interesting, I guess.

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Bob Sussman, Principal at Sussman and Associates.

And Tracy Woodruff, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford.

The panel is intended to synthesize a range of information and views from this conference and provide some insights from key players on and off Capitol Hill into how and why the Lautenberg Act was enacted and how it has worked in achieving its goals.

What were the forces that drove the legislation forward? What were key stakeholders' goals and expectations of the time? What are the law's successes and failures so far? How is EPA doing? Have the law's core paradigms been validated? And looking ahead, is now the right time to be amending TSCA? And if so, how? The law was passed with great optimism that it would provide certainty and public health protections.