To compel, through litigation in federal court, an end to the extremely high levels of airborne and waterborne mercury discharges from the HoltraChem plant in Orrington, Maine. The suit is also seeking a cleanup of the mercury sediments in the…
To support the Pingree Forest Partnership’s acquisition of land in Maine.
To protect 133,000 acres of Champion lands in northern Vermont.
To protect Champion land in Vermont.
To establish the Low Impact Hydropower Institute, which will apply a standardized set of criteria for determining whether a hydropower facility, or dam, has sufficiently minimal environmental impacts to be classified as “green” power within the Green-E certification program.
To build public support for abating climate change by reducing greenhouse gases.
To launch a public education program about the potential environmental and public health impacts, as well as the implications for agriculture, of genetically engineered foods.
To launch a media program about the potential environmental and public health impacts, as well as the implications for agriculture, of genetically engineered foods.
To improve and maintain an information clearinghouse as a component of the Sustainable Hospitals Project, which serves the Health Care Without Harm Campaign by providing technical information and other health care facilities seeking to eliminate their dioxin and mercury emissions.
To provide general support to this network of foundations with environment programs.