Director
Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
Energy, Environment and Resources Center
University of Tennessee
311 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
Phone: 865-974-1835
Fax: 865-974-1838
gadavis@utk.edu

Selected Publications:

Gary Davis, "Growing Business Naturally," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, 15(4), Winter 2000.

Gary Davis et al., "Extended Product Responsibility: A Tool for a Sustainable Economy," Environment, September 1997.

Gary Davis et al., Extended Product Responsibility: A New Principle for Product-Oriented Pollution Prevention, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, June 1997.

Gary Davis et al., The Product Side of Pollution Prevention: Evaluating the Potential for Safe Substitutes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1994.

Gary Davis, The Use of Life Cycle Assessment in Environmental Labeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1993.

Gary Davis, "The Sun Also Rises: Evaluating the Potential for Safe Substitutes for Priority Chemicals," in Rethinking the Materials We Use: A New Focus for Pollution Policy, eds. Ken Geiser and Fran Irwin, World Wildlife Fund, 1993.

Gary Davis and Bruce W. Piasecki, America's Future in Toxic Waste Management: Lessons From Europe (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987).

Gary Davis, "Mixed Messages on Mixed Waste: Continued Debate Over the Regulation of Mixtures of Radioactive Waste and Hazardous Chemical Waste," Tennessee Law Review, Spring 1986.

Gary Davis joined the EERC as a research associate in 1985. He currently directs the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, which focuses on pollution prevention through the design of products and production processes. 

The center evaluates market-based measures and government policies to encourage cleaner products, develops methods for assessing the life-cycle environmental impacts of products, and assesses and evaluates new, cleaner products and production methods. Mr. Davis is also an environmental attorney and an adjunct professor of environmental law in the UT College of Law. 

Before joining the University of Tennessee, Mr. Davis practiced environmental law in Knoxville, Tennessee, with the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation, a public-interest environmental-law firm. He also served as hazardous-waste policy advisor to the Governor's Office of California. As a chemical engineer, he performed pollution-prevention evaluations for industry. 

Mr. Davis served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Common Sense Initiative Automobile Manufacturing Subcommittee and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Environmental Management Technologies. He previously served as Chair of the ISO 14000 (TC 207) Subcommittee on Environmental Labeling and as a member of the EPA's LCA Peer Review Group. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tennessee Environmental Council. 

On the weekends, Mr. Davis helps his wife run a country inn and restaurant in the mountain resort town of Hot Springs, N.C.