To create a public education and citizen organizing structure that will build on the imminent release of In Harm’s Way, the Physicians for Social Responsibility report on the possible links between developmental and learning disabilities in children and environmental exposures.…
To help expand Forest Watch’s capacity to conduct effective grassroots outreach, public education and advocacy over the next two years with focus on three program areas: (1) saving and re-creating wild forests, (2) reforming management of public lands, and (3)…
To conduct media, public education, and advocacy campaigns that increase the visibility of climate change as a serious environmental problem and impress on policymakers and citizens the importance of taking action to abate it.
To provide general support for the network, which serves as an information resource to environmental and health activists and organizations at the local, national and international levels, particularly in regard to toxic environmental exposures and the precautionary principle.
To hire a science writer to summarize the proceedings of the conference on “The Health of Our Children in the Urban Environment: A Dialogue Among Scientists, Community Leaders and Policy Makers.”
To translate materials regarding biotechnology, genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms from English into Portuguese and Spanish.
To support the Center for Food Safety’s comprehensive legal program that seeks adequate federal regulation of genetically engineered products to protect environmental and public health.
To provide central coordination for the Genetic Engineering Action Network USA, the nation’s largest coalition of organizations opposed to genetically engineered products because of potential harm to the environment, human health and small farmers.
To initiate a national, public campaign calling for a moratorium on genetically engineered crops and food products until adequate federal regulations to ensure labeling and safety testing are established.
To clean up or close the nation’s oldest, most polluting power plants by ending their exemptions to Clean Air Act regulations that restrict emissions from newer facilities. In addition to working at the federal level, the Clean Air Task Force…