Grant Program Environment

To document health effects related to pesticide exposure and advance policy reforms that protect the health of children and farmers and build toward national comprehensive pesticide policy reform.

To reduce toxic chemicals by winning fundamental reform on chemicals policy in Connecticut, while contributing to national and international trends toward precaution and safer alternatives.

To document health effects in Hawaii related to pesticide exposure and advance policy reforms that protect the health of children and farmers and build toward national comprehensive pesticide policy reform.

To convince college and university presidents to commit their campuses to carbon neutrality within specified timeframes, to ensure that their pledges are implemented, and to promote their commitments as models for institutional leaders in other sectors.

To help landowners in the Champlain Valley of Vermont manage their properties in ways that are sustainable for priority grassland bird species.

To use web-based consumer products databases to pressure the auto industry and producers of other important consumer goods into changing their manufacturing processes; and to support policy campaigns to enact chemicals policy reforms.

To expand work on climate and energy policy development in the Northeast.

To ensure that Connecticut makes significant progress toward its legislative commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

To document health effects in Michigan related to pesticide exposure and advance policy reforms that protect the health of children and farmers and build toward national comprehensive pesticide policy reform.

To improve state legislators’ capacity to defend and promote legislative initiatives to ban the use of priority toxic chemicals, and inform legislators about policy options states can consider in moving toward comprehensive chemical policy reform.