To respond to growing demand for safer chemicals and products by promoting green chemistry and environmental design as key elements of sustainable business practice, and facilitating alternatives assessment as an approach to safer chemicals management within companies.
To create a scientific testing protocol that will indicate whether a new chemical under development is an endocrine disrupter; and to publicize leading scientists’ judgment that the current regulatory regime for chemicals neglects current, widely accepted science.
To bring more and stronger health-affected voices to the debate on more effective chemical regulation; to build consumer demand for nontoxic products; and to harmonize key state and federal environmental health advocacy campaigns.
To accelerate the shift away from toxic chemicals toward safer substitutes in American businesses through joint business-NGO development of tools and resources that companies need; and to demonstrate to policymakers that chemicals reform will benefit both company bottom lines and…
To build support for chemicals policy reforms by educating and engaging citizens, the media and key decisionmakers.
To raise awareness of environmental factors, particularly toxic chemicals, that can harm brain development, contributing to learning disabilities and behavior disorders; to prevent those chemical exposures, especially among pregnant women and children, by helping to reform their regulation and use;…
To provide general support.
To promote comprehensive reform of US chemicals policy, and to achieve synergy between these domestic reforms and international chemicals policies.
To protect the principles of risk assessment, now under attack from the chemical industry, that underlie sound toxic chemicals regulation; and to improve the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System program.
To educate national learning and developmental disabilities organizations and neurodegenerative disease organizations about environmental links to neurological disabilities, increase collaboration among them, cultivate opportunities for them to support chemicals policy reforms, and translate relevant emerging science for their use.