Grant Program Environment

To build consumer demand in New England for electricity generated from new renewable energy resources and to drive the development for such projects in New England.

To serve as a convener of environmental health networks and campaigns on health and chemicals; to help guide and stimulate increased foundation support for environmental health issues; to participate in a coalition of state and national organizations working to ensure…

In partnership with the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, to empower cleaning and service workers, many of whom are minorities and recent immigrants, to engage in participatory research and promote government policies and company practices that reduce their exposures to…

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 by these companies.

To raise public and policymaker awareness about the health impacts of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed mercury rule.

To expose the Bush Administration’s poor record of enforcing environmental laws by: working with environmental officials in key states to build support for and implement policies that demonstrate the stark differences between the lax federal approach and more responsible state…

To organize the second genetically engineered foods strategy meeting in Washington, DC.

To provide general support.

To promote living-wage job creation in rural Vermont through enterprise development in the forest products sector; to build the market brand for FSC certified lumber products in Vermont and Beyond; and to demonstrate community-based sustainable development.

To generate news media stories that explain the Bush Administration’s regulatory changes as they affect environmental protection.