Grant Program Environment

To accelerate market demand for healthier building materials.

To create a health-oriented coalition to achieve bans of single chemicals and promote comprehensive chemicals policy reform in Minnesota.

To launch an 18-month marketing campaign to embed clean power products within Maine’s and New England’s retail-level renewable energy markets.

To unite diverse constituencies in campaigns to reduce toxic chemicals and win fundamental reform on chemicals policy.

To promote regulatory action in six states leading toward phaseouts for the most hazardous pesticides.

To educate the public about the special qualities of pure maple syrup through media outreach.

To study and quantify the health benefits of slowing global warming by reducing air pollution.

To secure approval for wind power projects in Maine, and to improve state policies and regulatory processes for wind power.

To assist Vermont’s new agriculture commissioner in developing tools to aid the state’s dairy industry in efforts to retain valuable farmland.

To secure a ban on the use of Bisphenol A in food and beverage containers, and baby bottles in particular, as a precursor to a phaseout of all remaining uses in consumer products of this high-priority, hormone-disrupting chemical.