Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.