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 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 reduce energy use throughout the health care sector, and to encourage the sector to assume an advocacy role in defending the Clean Air Act and EPA’s authority to regulate air emissions.
To support adoption and implementation of public policies that advance the efficient use of energy.
To assist more than 200 colleges, universities and hospitals in investing a total of $1 billion in self-managed revolving loan funds to finance energy efficiency improvements.
To promote and implement a five-point plan that gains significant state investment for entrepreneurial development, midsized working lands enterprises, and strategic infrastructure that will position Vermont as a leader in the local foods movement, creative value-added processing, and innovative and…
To demonstrate that new coal-fired power plants are poor investments compared to alternatives and begin retiring existing plants by stopping capital flows.
To build support along the Atlantic coastline for appropriately sited offshore wind development.
To support the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to implement and enforce the Clean Air Act, and to push EPA to enact regulations and policies that improve air quality, especially those that affect coal-fired power plants.
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.