To serve as an incubator for campaigns and strategies that implement chemical phase-outs from key market sectors, weaken the role of the chemical industry in devising regulations, and develop body burden testing and other environmental monitoring efforts as a key…
To develop state and national alliances of constituencies with health problems linked to chemical exposures and the health professionals who support them; to develop these alliances within the learning and developmental disability communities nationally; to strengthen public and professional awareness…
To reduce environmental triggers of asthma and exposure to hazardous diesel emissions in Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut.
To involve college students in climate change and genetic engineering campaigns on their campuses, and build the power of students as an organized constituency.
To build support for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods, and to build a market for products free of genetically engineered contents by conducting a national campaign to push supermarkets to eliminate them in their store brand lines.
To improve the capabilities of New England’s environmental organizations to communicate with their members and the voting public and to organize and execute collaborative campaigns around key state and regional issues.
To educate Maine citizens about the new Toxics Use Reduction law, organize them to fight for genuine change in corporate toxic chemical practices, and maintain a leadership position concerning Maine toxics management policy to ensure the smooth implementation of the…
To create a broader health care provider constituency informed and mobilized to take action both locally and nationally to protect the environments of children by conducting regional trainings for health care professionals based on In Harm’s Way, which documents the…
To develop a communications strategy to raise public awareness about the dangers of persistent bioaccumulative toxics.
To coordinate the New England-wide effort to achieve the virtual elimination of mercury emissions in the region by 2010 and prevent human exposure to mercury.