Publications

• April 24, 2008 Congressional Testimony - National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course for Reauthorization Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation-Subcommitte on Science, Technology, and Innovation New nanotechnology consumer products are coming on the market at the rate of three to four per week, a finding based on the latest update to the nanotechnology consumer product inventory. Today, in testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, PEN Project Director David Rejeski cited Ace Silver Plus—another of the nine nano toothpastes in the inventory—as an example of the upsurge in nanotechnology consumer products in stores. The hearing marks the start of U.S. Senate debate on the future direction of the annual $1.5 billion federal investment in nanotechnology research and development . David Rejeski
• April 16, 2008 House Science and Technology Committee’s hearing on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008 Testimony of Dr. Andrew Maynard Today at the House Science and Technology Committee’s hearing on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008, testimony highlighted shortfalls in the current U.S. Government Strategy. According to Dr. Andrew Maynard, without clear leadership and more transparency in federal risk research investment, the emergence of safe nanotechnologies will be a happy accident, rather than a foregone conclusion. Dr. Andrew Maynard
• April 9, 2008 PEN 11 - Room at the Bottom? Potential State and Local Strategies for Managing the Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology State and local governments often have adopted trailblazing initiatives to address environmental, health and safety concerns in advance or in lieu of federal action. With nanotechnology, an emerging field of science with unknown risks, this practice is continuing, a landmark study has found. Suellen Keiner
• February 28, 2008 First Annual Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy Keynote Address Keynote address from Michael R. Taylor at the First Annual Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy. Michael R. Taylor
• February 26, 2008 Application of the Toxics Release Inventory to Nanomaterials PEN Brief No. 2 This research brief examines whether the legal authorities that establish the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) in the Emergency Planning and Community-Right to-Know Act (EPCRA) could be applied to nanomaterials. Although several organizations have published analyses of whether specific environmental laws could be used to regulate nanomaterials, none of these reviews has examined EPCRA or TRI in any detail. Linda K. Breggin and Read D. Porter
• February 19, 2008 Applying the Chemical Policy Options to Emerging Technologies and Materials: Adaptations and Challenges Can the template developed in this report for chemicals policy reform be applied in assessing the hazards of emerging technologies and what considerations are involved for state governments? Steffen Foss Hansen and David Rejeski
• February 15, 2008 Nanotechnology Field Observations: Scouting the New Industrial West “Note from the Field” article for the Journal of Cleaner Production. David Rejeski, Deanna Lekas
• February 4, 2008 Biased Assimilation, Polarization, and Cultural Credibility: An Experimental Study of Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions PEN Brief No. 3 When the public considers competing arguments about a new technology’s potential risks and benefits, people will tend to agree with the expert whose values are closest to their own, no matter what position the expert takes. According to this study, the same will hold true for nanotechnology. Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Geoffrey Cohen, Douglas Kysar
• January 4, 2008 Looking Back on the First Two Years Biennial Report This report reviews the Project’s major activities, key contributions, and most significant impacts over its first two years. Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
• December 12, 2007 A Survey of Environmental, Health and Safety Risk Management Information Needs and Practices among Nanotechnology Firms in the Massachusetts Region PEN Brief No. 1 John Lindberg and Margaret Quinn, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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