Grant Program Health and Environment

To work cooperatively with Clean Production Action in developing a toolkit that facilitates chemicals management and informed chemical substitution at footwear/apparel and outdoor companies in Europe.

To continue the legal case fighting the Penobscot River’s mercury contamination.

To introduce and win chemicals policy reforms in a critical mass of states to help transform the consumer products market and create pressure for federal reform.

To advocate for state and federal policy reforms and undertake market campaigns that will reduce carcinogenic chemicals in the environment and prevent more cases of breast cancer.

To establish corporate commitments across the retail sector to eliminate hazardous chemicals in companies production and supply chains as they work to implement safer product reformulations.

To educate and engage citizens, the media, and key decisionmakers in order to build significant public support for state and federal chemicals policy reforms.

To prevent learning disabilities in the developing fetus, infants, and children by: providing state affiliates with information and resources, participating in research projects on the environmental toxins-developmental disabilities link, and participating in state and national policy and market campaigns.

To support, educate, and engage state legislators on state and federal environmental health and chemicals policy reform initiatives, including efforts to ban toxic flame retardants, eliminate toxics from childrens products, and facilitate state responses to the Hazardous Hundred chemicals that…

To recognize Sparkplug Award winner Pete Myers.

To achieve broad chemicals policy reform in New York, which will serve as a catalyst for comprehensive federal reform.