Environmental Health Fund
To continue fostering integration among environmental health, policy and market campaigns, and increasing the financial resources needed to support those campaigns.
To continue fostering integration among environmental health, policy and market campaigns, and increasing the financial resources needed to support those campaigns.
To reaffirm Connecticut’s leadership role in the national discussion on climate change by promoting policies and investments in energy efficiency and clean energy.
To advance policies and instigate actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New England to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the interim goal needed to attain 80 percent reductions by 2050.
To enable the Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental Health to seek state policy and administrative actions that protect people from exposures to toxic chemicals; and to leverage growing public engagement and business sector interest in green chemistry and federal chemicals…
To support programs that include developing business plans for up to 20 low-income refugee farmers; improving access to healthy food for hundreds of low-income consumers; and providing job training, community organizing and leadership opportunities for up to 60 high-school age…
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.
To determine the feasibility of, and undertake the first steps in developing, a regional food center and distribution system that makes locally-produced foods available and affordable in southern Vermont and New Hampshire while providing a fair return for farmers.
To stop the construction of new coal plants and expedite the retirement of existing coal plants in the Midwest.
To develop and implement a new technical assistance program model that meets the critical needs of Vermont’s organic dairy farmers.
To create momentum for federal chemicals policy that protects public health and the environment, provides predictability to the business community, restores US leadership on issues of health and safety, and prevents chemical industry attempts to weaken reform measures.