To protect public health against environmental threats related to agriculture, including pesticides, dairy products containing bovine growth hormone (commonly known as rBGH), and the use of toxic sludge as farm fertilizer.
To support litigation to challenge Southwestern Vermont Medical Health Care Corporation’s appeal of the denial of their Act 250 permit application to build an assisted living facility on primary agricultural soils.
To support a conference to bring together housing and conservation practitioners from around Vermont.
To catalyze federal grants to the four northeast states (NY, VT, NH, ME) under existing appropriation mechanisms such as the Land and Water Conservation Fund or the Forest Legacy Program, so that critical wilderness areas and working forests can be…
To hire an attorney in tax and estate planning to set up a Planned Giving Program.
To support the Advocacy for Toxics Use Reduction Program, which will seek to improve the effectiveness of Massachusetts’ Toxic Use Reduction Act by improving state agency enforcement, pressuring businesses to reduce their use of toxic chemicals, and making information about…
To develop the next generation of environmental leaders and grassroots organizers by providing a nationally selected group of young people with training in organizing skills, direct experience in issue campaigns, and assistance in finding positions at environmental organizations. A grant…
To support the Death by Degrees Program in New England, which seeks to raise public awareness about the local impacts of climate change, particularly its potential effects on human health. In its second year, the program will expand into Massachusetts…
To strengthen the assistance provided to local groups and activists confronted with toxic contamination in their communities; and to establish a new program to help residents fight local pesticide use.
To support the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, which encourages companies to change their business practices in ways that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; and then provides technical assistance to these companies once they have made that decision.…