To conduct a comprehensive legal strategy, including litigation and legal petitions directed at federal agencies, designed to address the federal government’s continuing failure to regulate biotechnology adequately for the protection of public health and the environment.
To transform the Precautionary Principle from a theory about the safety standards required before introducing technologies and substances into the environment into a set of policies and decision making processes that can be implemented by state governments to protect human…
To create a visible consumer movement to pressure Shaw’s supermarket chain into removing genetically engineered ingredients from their product lines, while simultaneously educating the public about GE food issues, and aiming to place a moratorium on genetically engineered foods until…
To define appropriate target industries and needed outreach strategies to enlist corporations and other major institutions in collaborations with Clean Energy Group that explore clean energy installations at their sites.
To educate and engage college students in the public debate on climate change and genetic engineering.
To enable current and former employees of environmental public agencies in New England to attend the national PEER Summit.
To provide general support for Environmental Media Services.
To educate the health care industry about the links between environmental contamination and illnesses in the general population, and to urge physicians, nurse groups, hospitals, academic centers and others to eliminate harmful chemicals from health care settings in New England.
To promote greater awareness about the problems that sprawl development causes, and about the actions that individuals and communities can take to prevent it.
To safeguard science and the public welfare from the corrupting influence of industry’s financial support of academic research, and of scientists who are given an investment stake in the outcomes or applications of their research.