Mary Ellen Ternes to Address ASSE Safety Expo 2007

Environmental attorney Mary Ellen Ternes will be a featured speaker on the topic of nanotechnology at the 5th Annual American Society of Safety Engineers' Safety Expo 2007 on April 20 at the Francis Tuttle Reno Campus. 

Founded in 1911, ASSE is the oldest and largest professional safety organization. Its members manage, supervise and consult on safety, health, and environmental issues in industry, insurance, government and education.

Ternes will summarize the current national and international thought regarding issues critical to developing appropriate nanotechnology health, safety and environmental regulation, including toxicology, routes of exposure, environmental fate and transport and recommended work practice standards, including EPA's recently issued "Nanotechnology White Paper."

Ternes is a former chemical engineer who began her environmental career as an EPA Region 6 emergency On-Scene Coordinator in 1985.  She also worked as a hazardous waste incinerator permit writer both for EPA Region 6, then industry, before going to law school.

As an environmental lawyer, Ternes assists clients with all types of environmental issues, including potential liability resulting from exposure to hazardous chemicals.  She recently wrote the American Bar Association's position paper on the Clean Air Act and Nanotechnology, briefed EPA's now former General Counsel Ann Klee regarding these issues, and moderated the national ABA teleconference on the same issues.

She currently serves on the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Board of Directors.

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