To hold a daylong Mercury Summit for representatives from public interest organization nationwide to identify opportunities for collaboration and closer coordination to advance a shared goal of eliminating intentional uses of mercury.
To reprint the In Harm’s Way fact sheet, “Creating a Healthy Environment for Your Child’s Development.”
To develop a fee proposal to fund the Safer Alternatives program, and to conduct a scoping and feasibility study on the employment and economic development benefits of chemical substitution.
To develop marketing and educational programs for Vermont maple farmers and producers.
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.
To promote reforms in Maine that phase out the unnecessary use of the entire class of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
To promote reforms in Maine that phase out the unnecessary use of the entire class of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
To launch a program that will encourage companies and institutional investors to measure progress in reducing the use of toxic chemicals and substituting safer alternatives.
To investigate and publicize instances of food product contamination and health impacts from crops genetically engineered to produce medicines and chemicals.
To continue advancing the precautionary principle by facilitating its adoption at state and local levels; and to conduct preliminary research about the potential for litigation to address public health impacts from exposures to toxic chemicals, in cooperation with the New…