Grant Program Health and Environment

To educate and guide EU policymakers and regulators to ensure that REACH remains effective as the worlds most comprehensive and progressive chemicals management regime.

To reduce toxic chemicals in consumer goods, particularly those used by or affecting children, by advancing policy and market solutions in New York and nationally.

To leverage demand from investors, retailers, and institutional purchasers to drive corporations to measure, disclose, and ultimately reduce their chemical footprints.

To protect people disproportionately affected by chemical hazards from toxic exposure through products sold at retail outlets aimed at low-income customers and leverage action by the largest “dollar store” chains that helps move the broader retail market toward full disclosure…

To increase use of new, rapid screening technologies for identifying chemicals in consumer products, and to apply collaborations with academic institutions in support of emerging market and policy campaigns.

To launch a fully integrated campaign to drive the hormone-disrupting class of chemicals known as phthalates out of the marketplace in favor of safer substitutes within the next five years, while leading new place-based market campaigns in Maine.

To enable Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families to educate the public about federal chemicals policy and to significantly improve chemicals management among the largest retailers in the United States.

To focus on furniture containing chemical flame retardants as a strategy for building momentum for state-based extended producer responsibility policies that include a ban on these toxins in new furniture, as well as end-of-use management solutions for contaminated furniture that…

To ensure implementation and improvement of Vermonts new chemicals policy reform program.

To evaluate NCEL’s current organizational structure, reflect on its mission and future, and develop a strategic plan that will help inform the hiring of a permanent executive director.