John Wargo

I am a professor of environmental politics, law, and environmental health risk analysis at Yale University and have been Chair or Director of the Yale College Environmental Studies Major for the past decade. I have written and lectured extensively on the potential and limits of environmental law and I’m passionate to reduce human exposure to chemicals in our environment. I consult with governments, non-profits, and corporations to help create healthier environments, especially for children and women of childbearing age.

My first book, Our Children's Toxic Legacy, won the American Association of Publishers award as the best book in the field of political science in 1998. It tells a story of how children are especially threatened by the failure of pesticide law during the 20th century.

Green Intelligence won the Independent Publishers' Gold Medal Award in the field of "environment, ecology, and nature" for 2010, was chosen as one of Scientific American's favorite books for 2009, and received the Connecticut Book Award for non-fiction in 2010. It grew from my previous work on pesticides, and considers how to manage other threats to health including radiation, plastics, air pollution, and mercury in fish, among other topics. It is the basis and text for my favorite class to teach, Environmental Politics and Law, one of Yale College’s most subscribed courses. Its 24 lecturers are freely accessible in video online and translated into 50 languages as an Open Yale course that nearly 50,000 have viewed.

http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2872/Environmental-Politics-and-Law