Grant Program Health and Environment

To provide general support for SAFER’s core state policy reform and market-based activities as well as provide additional resources to state coalitions likely to achieve chemicals policy reforms or market shifts.

To enable Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families to participate in regulatory rulemaking to implement the new federal chemicals law, and to significantly improve the largest US retailers’ management of chemicals in their products and supply chains.

To support grassroots coalitions in Connecticut and Minnesota focused on eliminating toxic chemicals from consumer products.

To ensure that Washington State implements its new comprehensive flame retardant policy, supports other state administrative actions to reduce toxic chemical exposures, and participates in national market-oriented campaigns such as Mind the Store.

To secure strong implementation of the Toxic-Free Kids Act through the final phase of rulemaking and launch a campaign for a state procurement program that includes provisions to measure and track the impact of safer product purchasing.

To accelerate the building sector’s use of public database tools that increase transparency about materials, thereby encouraging greater use of safe, nontoxic materials in buildings.

To participate in regulatory rulemaking so that the Chemical Safety Act is interpreted, implemented, and enforced in as health-protective, transparent, and equitable a manner as possible.

To transform corporate management of chemicals through policies and procedures that institutionalize demand for safer chemicals in products and supply chains.

To develop product testing protocols and provide product testing services for several market-based projects and initiatives, including Mind the Store and other collaborative market campaigns aiming to eliminate target chemicals from consumer products.

To develop a market-based campaign educating consumers about the dangers of phthalate contamination of popular dairy products in order to persuade the Food and Drug Administration to ban classes of neurotoxic and hormone-disrupting phthalates in food manufacturing.