2025 Annual Symposium — Foreword: Breathing Easier in a Polluted World

Natural gas cooking, pesticide spray drift, radioactive waste, hair products,
and oil refinery emissions are rarely conceptually grouped in law school texts or
advocacy campaigns. But all were sources of human exposure risk encompassed
in Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2025 Annual Symposium on Toxic Exposures:
Within and Without. This event marked the first-ever ELQ panel assemblage
focused on an urgent environmental subfield that has yet to cohere as a
recognized legal-curricular area: Environmental Health (EH). Part public health
law, part environmental law, and part social justice movement lawyering, the
emerging field of EH law confronts assaults on the human body from toxic
chemicals, radiation, and pollution.