However, new research out today from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a nonprofit environmental law organization based in DC and Geneva, indicates that chemical regulation may actually have an upside for businesses as well.

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International environmental groups like Amazon Watch say that the new forestry law past by the congress will reverse nearly a decade of declines in deforestation.

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He teaches international environmental politics in the political science department at Stanford University and energy law at Stanford Law School.

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