The John Merck Fund - Environment Grants 2006

The New England Environment

Air Quality, Clean Energy and Climate Change

Appalachian Mountain Club	$50,000
To assist Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire in their development of wind power siting policies that reduce conflict and encourage appropriately sited wind power facilities.
Center for Climate Strategies	$45,000
To develop, coordinate and document a stakeholder process that will result in statewide policy recommendations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Vermont.
Clean Air-Cool Planet	$50,000
To develop and coordinate a new multi-stakeholder model for municipal climate action planning, which will result in cost-effective greenhouse gas reductions that can be adopted by cities throughout New England.
Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)	$60,000
To improve corporate and investor policies that have an impact on climate change.
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice	$20,000
To reduce public health problems associated with diesel pollution by pressing for retrofit and replacement of school and transit buses in communities throughout the state.
Conservation Law Foundation	$40,000
To ensure widespread and effective implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative-a proposed cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions from power plants in the Northeast.
Energy Consumers Alliance of New England	$50,000
To increase enrollment in New England GreenStart, which enables Massachusetts and Rhode Island consumers to buy clean energy through their electric utility.
Environment Northeast	$100,000
To assist state agencies and organizations in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in promoting and adopting large-scale energy efficiency measures and policies; and to manage campaigns in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island where measures aimed at reducing emissions from diesel engines are being developed.
Environment Northeast	$10,000
To support the adoption and implementation of efficiency standards for appliances and equipment in New England states.
Massachusetts Climate Action Network	$25,000
To continue developing community support for climate protection in Massachusetts, primarily through the Cities for Climate protection program; and to use the participation of local leaders to press for stronger climate protection policies at state and regional levels.
New England Climate Coalition	$131,000
To achieve greenhouse gas reductions throughout New England by ensuring that every state in the region signs on to and adopts rules for participating in the New England Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Inc.	$50,000
To support the adoption and implementation of efficiency standards for appliances and equipment in New England states.
Regulatory Assistance Project	$75,000
To provide policy and technical analysis to state policymakers and stakeholders in implementing the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Union of Concerned Scientists	$40,000
To demonstrate the strategic importance of renewable energy through implementation of innovative clean energy and climate policies in New England.

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Environmental Health

Alternatives for Community & Environment	$35,000
To reduce toxic diesel emissions from vehicles in the Boston area and participate in a coalition that aims to reduce diesel emissions statewide by 50 percent by 2010 and 75 percent by 2020.
Arc of Massachusetts	$20,000
As part of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, to achieve fundamental chemicals policy reform in Massachusetts that stresses substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.
Clean Water Fund	$125,000
As part of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, to achieve fundamental chemicals policy reform in Massachusetts that stresses substituting alternatives for safer alternatives for hazardous chemicals.
Clean Water Fund	$50,000
As part of the Campaign for a Healthy Connecticut, to achieve concrete policy change and shift corporate practices in the state to prevent health damage from toxic chemical exposures.
Connecticut Citizen Research Group	$10,000
As part of the Campaign for a Healthy Connecticut, to achieve concrete policy change and shift corporate practices in the state to prevent health damage from toxic chemical exposures.
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice	$10,000
As part of the Campaign for a Healthy Connecticut, to achieve concrete policy change and shift corporate practices in the state to prevent health damage from toxic chemical exposures.
Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health	$10,000
As part of the Campaign for a Healthy Connecticut, to achieve concrete policy change and shift corporate practices in the state to prevent health damage from toxic chemical exposures.
Connecticut Nurses Foundation	$10,000
As part of the Campaign for a Healthy Connecticut, to achieve concrete policy change and shift corporate practices in the state to prevent health damage from toxic chemical exposures.
Connecticut Public Health Research & Education Fund	$10,000
As part of the Campaign for a Healthy Connecticut, to achieve concrete policy change and shift corporate practices in the state to prevent health damage from toxic chemical exposures.
Connecticut Public Interest Research Group Education Fund	$10,000
As part of the Campaign for a Healthy Connecticut, to achieve concrete policy change and shift corporate practices in the state to prevent health damage from toxic chemical exposures.
Environmental Health Strategy Center	$100,000
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
Environmental League of Massachusetts	$30,000
As part of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, to achieve fundamental chemicals policy reform in Massachusetts that stresses substituting with safer alternatives for hazardous chemicals.
Learning Disabilities Association of Maine	$26,850
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
Maine Labor Group on Health	$1,400
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association	$15,000
In cooperation with Pesticide Action Network North America, to promote policy change and regulatory action in Maine that lead to toxic pesticide phaseouts and use reductions by increasing involvement of health professionals and health-affected people.
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association	$14,000
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
Maine People's Resource Center	$30,000
To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and corporate polluters accountable for the Penobscot River's severe mercury contamination.
Maine People's Resource Center	$30,000
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
Maine Public Health Association	$77,250
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health	$40,000
To empower cleaning and service workers, many of whom are minorities and recent immigrants, to engage in participatory research and promote company practices and government policies that reduce their exposures to toxic cleaning chemicals and introduce safer alternatives into their workplaces.
Massachusetts Public Health Association	$20,000
As part of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, to achieve fundamental chemicals policy reform in Massachusetts that stresses substituting safer alternatives for hazardous chemicals.
MASSPIRG Education Fund	$30,000
As part of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, to achieve fundamental chemicals policy reform in Massachusetts that stresses substituting safer alternatives for hazardous chemicals.
Natural Resources Council of Maine	$24,000
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
Physicians for Social Responsibility of Maine	$14,000
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Greater Boston Chapter	$75,000
To research, produce, publish and plan for release of a new report entitled Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging, which will focus on adult neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases, following the landmark In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development report.
Toxics Action Center	$50,000
To protect Maine communities from aerial pesticide spraying over blueberry barrens; to curb herbicide spraying on rights-of-way in Massachusetts; to reduce aquatic pesticide treatments in Massachusetts; and to continue the Rhode Island Neighborhood Assistance Project.
Toxics Action Center	$12,500
As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote state policy reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.
University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production	$60,000
To encourage forward-looking chemicals use in corporations as well as in state and federal levels both in the US and Europe.

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Strengthening the Citizen Voice in Environmental Decisionmaking

Green Corps	$25,000
To train an aspiring leader from New England in the skills, strategies and issues s/he needs to launch a career as an organizer in the environmental field; and to provide grassroots support to New England-based campaigns.

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Protecting Farmland and Forests in Vermont

Food Works	$95,000
To further develop a food distribution system linking area farmers to schools and programs that feed needy Vermonters; and to increase public awareness of the role local farmers play in feeding healthy citizens and communities.
Intervale Foundation	$40,000
To improve the entire farm program's financial and organizational management; to help farmers create business plans and build equity; and to strengthen the incubator program for new farmers.
Merck Forest & Farmland Center	$65,000
To provide children and young adults outdoor experiences that promote a deeper understanding of the challenges in balancing of environmental, economic and community needs in order to manage forests and farms sustainably.
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont	$10,000
To provide technical assistance, document best practices, analyze the economic and social value of farmers' markets, exchange valuable information, pilot the 'rapid market assessment' tool, and build the farmers' market network in Vermont.
Preservation Trust of Vermont	$20,000
To pressure Wal-Mart to build smaller-scale stores in Vermont's designated downtown areas in order to preserve the economy of downtown communities, protect local businesses that operate there, and prevent sprawl.
University of Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese	$35,000
To promote visibility and strengthen viability of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese through enhanced public relations.
Vermont Farms Association	$25,000
To hire an executive administrator, capable of building a strong agritourism promotion program. First installment of a two-year, $50,000 grant.
Vermont Forum on Sprawl	$50,000
To advocate for investments, policies and practices that promote growth in and around community centers rather than developing farms and forest lands.
Vermont Fresh Network	$25,000
To improve Vermont Fresh Network's ability to increase consumer demand for locally grown food.
Vermont Land Trust	$75,000
To promote diversified and value-added enterprises on conserved farms, and to assist new farmers in becoming owner-operators of conserved farms.
Vermont Land Trust	$5,000
To enable Vermont WildWoods to investigate marketing possibilities associated with wood products from conserved lands.
Vermont Maple Foundation	$78,000
In partnership with a professional media firm, to educate the public about the special qualities of the state's pure maple syrup and the important role that syrup production plays in ensuring sustainability for Vermont's family farms, sugar bush stands and working landscape.
Vermont Public Interest Research and Education Fund	$40,000
To protect the health and wellbeing of Vermont's environment, people and local economy.
Vital Communities	$40,000
To build a community-driven, local food system by fostering productive relationships between farmers, retail grocers, wholesalers, restaurants, institutions, and local consumers. First installment of a two-year, $75,000 grant.
Working Landscapes	$25,000
In conjunction with Vermont Land Trust's Farmland Enterprise and Access Program, to provide business planning services to Vermont farmers to help them increase profitability and keep their land in active agriculture.

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The Environment Beyond New England

Air Quality, Clean Energy and Climate Change

Center for Health and the Global Environment	$60,000
From within Harvard Medical School, to provide education to corporate leaders, policymakers, and the public concerning the full range of potentially cascading health and socioeconomic risks from climate change and climate-related diseases in order to encourage them to make better informed decisions regarding their own practices and relevant public policies.
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future	$50,000
To ensure that Pennsylvania adopts regulations requiring the state's power plants to reduce their mercury emissions 90 percent by 2015 and prohibiting trading of mercury allowances between emitters.
Clean Air Task Force	$325,000
Working with partner organizations in twelve states, to spur a 70 percent reduction in US mobile diesel emissions by 2020.
Clean Energy Group	$80,000
To facilitate a network of large institutional investors to consider investment strategies for clean energy technologies.
Co-op America	$25,000
To mobilize individual investors and consumers to pressure corporations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Corporate targets will be selected in coordination with CERES' institutional investor campaigns.
Minuteman Media	$25,000
To inform small-town and rural residents in Ohio about environmental policy issues through the opinion pages of their local newspapers.
SmartPower	$100,000
To create a voluntary demand for clean energy from large consumers of electricity in 200 targeted cities and states across the country; develop marketing strategies to maximize consumer awareness of and demand for energy efficiency; and create a strong market for clean energy use by developing and implementing state-of-the-art marketing and messaging for clean energy. First installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant.
Waterkeeper Alliance	$50,000
As part of an ongoing strategy to address the impacts of mercury contamination from coal-fired power plants, to file a lawsuit in Canadian federal court to force a US utility to implement strict controls that reduce its mercury emissions by 90 percent.
World Resources Institute	$25,000
To support the adoption and implementation of progressive climate change policies by demonstrating that major companies can thrive in a carbon-constrained economy.

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Environmental Health

Alaska Community Action on Toxics	$20,000
In cooperation with Pesticide Action Network North America, to promote policy change and regulatory action in Alaska that lead to toxic pesticide phaseouts and use reductions by increasing involvement of health professionals, organizations and health-affected people.
American Association on Mental Retardation	$100,000
To raise awareness within the developmental disabilities community about the links between chemical exposures and preventable disabilities.
Autism Society of America	$100,000
To expand awareness within the autism and developmental disabilities communities about the links between autism spectrum disorders and exposure to chemicals in the environment; and to foster involvement in relevant policy advocacy.
Breast Cancer Fund	$36,000
To participate in the Toxic Free Legacy Project, which aims to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.
Californians for Pesticide Reform	$15,000
In cooperation with Pesticide Action Network North America, to promote policy change and regulatory action in California that lead to toxic pesticide phaseouts and use reductions by increasing involvement of health professionals, organizations and health-affected people.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice	$50,000
To shift the market away from PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic by convincing 'big box' retailers, as well as manufacturers and small retailers, to stop selling or using those products; and to instigate and support local and state campaigns to phase out the use of PVC plastic.
Center for International Environmental Law	$60,000
To protect the environment and human health and to promote human rights and environmental justice by seeking reforms of international economic law, policy and institutions.
Citizens' Environmental Coalition	$80,000
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
Clean Production Action	$45,000
To provide technical assistance to campaigns in multiple states that aim to eliminate brominated flame retardants, which are persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals rapidly accumulating in humans and wildlife.
Clean Water Fund of Minnesota	$50,000
To create a health-oriented coalition to achieve bans of high priority chemicals and promote comprehensive chemicals policy reform in Minnesota.
Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health	$50,000
To inform the public, the media, public interest organizations, elected officials, and policymakers of the scientific data from the center's biomedical research in an effort to prevent environmentally related disease and disabilities in children.
Coming Clean	$35,000
To create and implement strategies for bringing about reforms of the chemical industry through systemic changes in product manufacturing and markets, comprehensive policy reform on the state and national levels, better coordination between advocates and health professionals, and reporting on chemical industry practices.
Commonweal	$25,000
To hold the first national conference that explores potential links between Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases and exposures to chemicals in the environment. The conference will provide a discussion forum that is conducive to interaction among researchers, health care providers and people affected by Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative disorders. First installment of a two-year, $50,000 grant.
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity	$15,000
To provide operating support for the Health and and Environmental Funders Network, a network of grantmakers who share a commitment to health and a recognition that the health of humans, communities, ecosystems, and animals are profoundly interconnected
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity	$5,000
To provide general support. First installment of a two-year, $10,000 grant.
Ecology Center	$50,000
To move automobile manufacturers to use safer, less toxic plastics and other materials by educating consumers about potential hazards associated with chemicals inside automobiles, demonstrating the effectiveness of a market-based campaign, and encouraging policymakers and consumers to demand safer cars using more benign materials.
Environmental Health Fund	$75,000
To instigate a global shift away from chemicals that harm health and the environment by serving as a strategist, coordinator, convener and fundraiser for key market and policy campaigns that grassroots networks and the foundation community undertake.
Environmental Health Fund	$65,000
To coordinate and promote campaigns in multiple states to eliminate brominated flame retardants as a precursor to comprehensive chemicals policy reform on persistent bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals.
Environmental Health Sciences Information Center	$77,000
To broaden and deepen participation in environmental health activism by interpreting the rapidly emerging scientific understanding of the links between environmental exposures and human health for elite and general audiences, promoting media coverage of these new developments, facilitating exchange among scientists, and encouraging individual scientists to connect with public health advocacy.
Environmental Working Group	$80,000
To use biomonitoring and other data to promote federal and state chemicals policy reforms and changes in corporate manufacturing practices that are adequate to protect even vulnerable populations from the effects of toxic exposures.
Farm Worker Pesticide Project	$20,000
In cooperation with Pesticide Action Network North America, to promote policy change and regulatory action in Washington State that lead to toxic pesticide phaseouts and use reductions by increasing involvement of health professionals, organizations and health-affected people.
Farmworker Association of Florida	$15,000
In cooperation with Pesticide Action Network North America, to promote policy change and regulatory action in Florida that lead to toxic pesticide phaseouts and use reductions by increasing involvement of health professionals, organizations and health-affected people.
Health Care Without Harm	$40,000
To move the health care sector to make environmental health issues important criteria in product selection of medical devices, building materials, food and chemicals; and to educate the health care industry about the links between environmental toxins and human health.
Healthy Schools Network	$5,000
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition	$10,000
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy	$50,000
To create a health-oriented coalition to achieve bans of high priority chemicals and promote comprehensive chemicals policy reform in Minnesota.
Institute for Children's Environmental Health	$100,000
To support the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative, which aims to increase public awareness and discourse about the links between environmental exposures and developmental and learning disabilities among organizations affected individuals and their families, service providers and, ultimately, policymakers.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance	$30,000
To support the Healthy Building Network, which is promoting incorporation of health-based criteria into emerging green building standards by eliminating building materials that release toxic chemicals into the environment; and encouraging the health care, religious and affordable housing sectors to use those criteria in their building programs.
International Chemical Secretariat	$15,000
To cultivate large business as supporters and advocates for the European Union's REACH program, which phases out chemicals that persist in the environment and accumulate in people and wildlife, and establishes a more precautionary policy that encourages industry to innovate to safer products.
Learning Disabilities Association of New York State	$6,500
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
National Association for the Dually Diagnosed	$25,000
To increase awareness of the effects of environmental pollutants in contributing to developmental, neurological and mental health problems.
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators	$25,000
To educate its members about advocacy efforts to eliminate brominated flame retardants, which are persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals rapidly accumulating in humans and wildlife.
National Council of Churches	$200,000
To launch an initiative that raises awareness of environmental health issues among people of faith, engages religious leaders, strengthens environmental health work of religious organizations and in the larger interfaith community, and increases the capacity of the faith community to articulate its concerns about protection of human health and the environment.
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund	$15,000
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
Oceana, Inc.	$50,000
To stimulate a shift away from the use of mercury in the US manufacture of chlorine, and to defend the European Union's phaseout already planned for 2007.
Oregon Toxics Alliance	$15,000
In cooperation with Pesticide Action Network North America, to promote policy change and regulatory action in Oregon that lead to toxic pesticide phaseouts and use reductions by increasing involvement of health professionals, organizations and health-affected people.
People for Puget Sound	$32,500
As a part of the Toxic Free Legacy Project, to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.
Pesticide Action Network North America	$100,000
In cooperation with state partners, to promote policy change and regulatory action in seven states that lead to toxic pesticide phaseouts and use reductions by increasing involvement of health professionals, organizations and health-affected people.
Rochesterians Against the Misuse of Pesticides	$5,000
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment	$75,000
To build the business case and generate domestic and international investor demand for substituting safer alternatives for hazardous chemicals in consumer products.
Science Communication Network	$40,000
To broaden and deepen accurate media coverage of environmental health science and policy issues.
Science and Environmental Health Network	$70,000
To expand the law to implement and advance the precautionary principle that underlies chemical policy reform at the state and municipal levels, by creating a legal director position.
Toxic Waste/Lupus Coalition	$8,000
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility	$21,000
As part of the Toxic Free Legacy Project, to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.
Washington State Nurses Association	$29,000
As part of the Toxic Free Legacy Project, to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.
Washington Toxics Coalition	$131,500
As part of the Toxic Free Legacy Project, to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington
West Harlem Environmental Action	$6,500
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health	$14,000
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
World Wildlife Fund	$75,000
To educate policymakers, the media, and the public about the benefits of Europe's REACH program, which phases out chemicals that persist in the environment and accumulate in people and wildlife, and establishes a more precautionary policy that encourages industry to innovate to safer products.

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Genetically Engineered Food and Agriculture

Californians for GE-Free Agriculture	$60,000
To educate and organize farmers to resist the commercial introduction of genetically engineered rice.
Center for Food Safety	$210,000
To protect human health and the environment by ensuring appropriate testing and regulation of all genetically engineered crops and organisms.
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund	$35,000
To seek environmental review and regulation of open-air field tests of genetically engineered crops in Hawaii.
Hawaii SEED	$25,000
To stop the release of genetically engineered Hawaiian commodity crops, such as taro and coffee, while furthering research into the environmental and economic damage genetically modified papaya has caused on the islands.
National Family Farm Coalition	$30,000
To increase collaboration among rice producers and their trade associations to stop the commercialization of genetically engineered rice; and to develop a public education and media campaign to increase farmer awareness of the negative impacts of using genetically engineered alfalfa.
Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA	$50,000
To promote food security and justice by opposing the spread of genetically engineered foods and creating sustainable alternatives.
Union of Concerned Scientists	$60,000
To secure a ban on engineered food crops for pharmaceutical and industrial purposes, and to strengthen the overall biotechnology regulatory framework by fostering greater accountability in federal agency reviews of new products. First installment of a two-year, $120,000 grant.
Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project	$25,000
To stop the introduction and further planting of genetically modified crops until potential environmental, economic and health problems can be assessed and remedied.

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Defending Environmental Standards

Collaborative Environment Campaigns	$250,000
To help the national environmental community educate the public, media and decisionmakers about anti-environment initiatives while promoting pro-environment policies
Environmental Integrity Project	$75,000
To counter the Bush Administration's and state governments' failure to enforce air pollution regulations aimed at reducing emissions from power plants.
National Environmental Trust	$15,000
To advance and defend federal environmental protections through issue-based national campaigns.
Natural Resources Defense Council	$75,000
To establish the State Environmental Partnership in order to block federal efforts to pre-empt state environment, consumer and public health standards that are more rigorous than corresponding federal standards.

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Grassroots Responses to the Department of Energy

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability	$30,000
To coordinate a national network of local, regional and national organizations working to promote environmental management and cleanup at nuclear weapons facilities.
Government Accountability Project	$45,000
To reduce or eliminate the environmental, safety and health consequences resulting from the storage of nuclear material at the Hanford site.
Snake River Alliance Education Fund	$40,000
To conduct research, education, and community advocacy to protect Idaho's people, water and economy by promoting responsible cleanup of nuclear waste and contamination.
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment	$30,000
To conduct advocacy, public education, research and litigation to achieve cleanup of past and future contamination at the Livermore nuclear weapons production laboratory.

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Other

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity	$5,000
To provide general support.
Environmental Grantmakers Association	$3,280
To provide general support.

The New England Environment

Air Quality, Clean Energy and Climate Change

$50,000

$45,000

$50,000

$60,000

$20,000

$40,000

$50,000

$100,000

$10,000

$25,000

$131,000

$50,000

$75,000

$40,000

Environmental Health

$35,000

$20,000

$125,000

$50,000

Connecticut Citizen Research Group

$10,000

$10,000

$10,000

$10,000

Connecticut Public Health Research & Education Fund

$10,000

$10,000

$100,000

$30,000

$26,850

$1,400

$15,000

$14,000

$30,000

$30,000

$77,250

$40,000

$20,000

$30,000

$24,000

$14,000

$75,000

$50,000

$12,500

$60,000

Strengthening the Citizen Voice in Environmental Decisionmaking

$25,000

Protecting Farmland and Forests in Vermont

$95,000

$40,000

$65,000

$10,000

$20,000

$35,000

$25,000

$50,000

$25,000

$75,000

$5,000

$78,000

$40,000

$40,000

$25,000

The Environment Beyond New England

Air Quality, Clean Energy and Climate Change

$60,000

$50,000

$325,000

$80,000

$25,000

$25,000

$100,000

$50,000

$25,000

Environmental Health

$20,000

$100,000

$100,000