The Autism Society Event and Education Recordings Archive

Joe Guth, Ph.D., M.D. is Legal Director of Science and Environmental Health Network. He has a law degree from New York University, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Madison, Wisconsin., has worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York City, doing both litigation of Clean Water Act citizen's suits and toxic chemicals regulatory policy advocacy; as a litigator in private law firms in New York in the areas of environmental torts, intellectual property and products liability; and as a Vice-president of intellectual property for Chiron Corporation, a biotechnology company in California. Just before joining SEHN, Joe was Executive Director of the California League for Environmental Enforcement Now, a coalition of environmental groups and law firms in Oakland, California, and was Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, California, working on chemicals policy reform. Joe is currently a member of Cal/EPA's Cumulative Impacts and Precautionary Approaches Workgroup, which is working to implement California's Environmental Justice Action Plan under California's legislative environmental justice initiative. He was a member of Cal/EPA's 2008 Key Element Team on empowering consumers to make chemical decisions, a project of the California Green Chemistry Initiative; and is also a past member of U.S. EPA's National Pollution Prevention and Toxics Advisory Committee (NPPTAC), which advises EPA on its implementation of U.S. laws governing toxic chemicals.