Michael Baram

"... companies to disclose what kind of hazardous materials they work with. "There is no doubt this has been stimulated by tragic industrial accidents such as Bhopal. Chernobyl, and Seveso," Michael Baram of Boston University's Center for Law and Technology told an international conference on this subject in Boston recently. Professor Baram was referring to the accidental release ln 1984 of methyl isocyanate from a Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, which killed more than 2.500 people; to the 1986 Soviet nuclear ..."

"... five years before a plant is built The bill, though, has an emergency preamble which would make il become effective as soon as il is signed by Gov J Michael Baram, an attorney who has worked on environmental issues, said "lhe bill was drafted a little too hastily He said it would be difficult tu assess responsibility for environmental damage because ..."

"... from using asbestos or vinyl chloride, they may develop substitute prod, ucts that are less toxic. Such innovations cannot always be anticipated, much less factored into thu equation. And Michael S. Baram, a Boston attorney who has extensively studied analysis, describes it as a “numbers game." By "pushing llie numbers,” he says, analysts can reach "predetermined" conclusions opposing regulatory action to protect ..."