ABSTRACT
This chapter examines one part of the United States legal system and one part of that, namely a certain group of environmental health laws, that govern the vast majority of chemical creations proposed for commercialization and actually commercialized. It focuses on children during their development in order to discuss the law and relations between people. Humans are most susceptible to exposures to toxic substances and radiation or even other perturbations of their biology as they develop from pre-conception to embryos through birth and teenage years to adulthood, and into old age. The chapter suggests that exposure to chemical products or radiation released by one group of people in a society can adversely affect others citizens and be unjust. It argues that conceptions of justice can give insights into relations between citizens in a community. People exposed to tiny, invisible, undetectable substances that may or may not pose risks are treated quite differently.
