Grant Program Environment

To achieve the virtual elimination of mercury use and emissions in New England by 2010, thus preventing future human exposures that result in damage to neurological functions.

To form a coalition of health and environmental organizations that will promote reforms to phase out the use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.

To translate and communicate scientific findings from children’s environmental health research in order to promote more effective policies to reduce exposures to toxic chemicals.

To achieve the virtual elimination of mercury use and emissions in New England by 2010, thus preventing future human exposures that result in damage to neurological functions.

To organize a strategy conference in January 2003 to develop detailed campaign plans for coalition work to address and regulate genetically engineered food.

To support the Leadership Fund for Brock Evans.

To support the Global Warming Public Education Campaign, which will conduct an intensive media, policy, and public education campaign to promote policies and programs to reduce US global warming pollution.

To begin providing assistance to communities in Vermont faced with toxic contamination problems by opening an office in Montpelier; to strengthen the equivalent program in Maine; and to assist residents and neighborhood groups fighting toxic hazards in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

To develop a health-oriented coalition comprised of cancer survivors, public health officials, health care providers, educators, and mainstream, disease-specific organizations that advances both near-term environmental health objectives and policy reforms.

To educate and mobilize members and other citizens to petition the US Department of Agriculture for better regulation of genetically engineered products, including food labeling; and target several big-brand corporations to change their policy on GE products.