To empower cleaning and service workers, many of whom are minorities or recent immigrants, to engage in participatory research and promote company practices and government policies that reduce their exposures to toxic cleaning chemicals and introduce safer alternatives.
To achieve fundamental reform in Massachusetts policymaking and regulation on chemical use-stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment-by building a broad statewide coalition representing health-affected, medical, organized labor, environmental and faith communities that generates grassroots advocacy.
To promote coordinated state, national and international efforts to restrict exports of mercury from the US to developing countries and place surplus mercury into safe storage.
To promote coordinated state, national and international efforts to restrict exports of mercury from the US to developing countries and place surplus mercury into safe storage.
To substantially reduce mercury releases to the environment by convincing chlorine manufacturers to shift to mercury-free technologies.
To adopt an economy-wide cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Connecticut. In its first year this project will lay the ground work for a two-year campaign featuring public education and outreach to policymakers.
To launch and win a critical mass of comprehensive policy reform measures in key states to tip the balance for achieving chemicals policy reform at the federal level.
To bring public and policy attention to the widespread presence of chemical contamination in our bodies, by conducting body burden tests in five New York residents. The grant will support report preparation, message development and media relations.
To ensure that New Hampshire joins the other New England states in its progress in eliminating products containing mercury.
In collaboration with the Maine People’s Resource Center, to compel the HoltraChem Manufacturing Company and Mallinckrodt Inc. to clean up mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine, which was operated…