Maine People’s Resource Center
To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and corporate polluters accountable for their failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination and other pollutants.
To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and corporate polluters accountable for their failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination and other pollutants.
To build and maintain a network of support and resources for medical students and residents seeking reproductive health care training; and to reform medical curricula and training to include abortion and reproductive health care as a standard part of medical…
To develop, test and disseminate a set of innovative, state-level strategies that can increase women’s access to emergency contraception.
To develop a pipeline of workers prepared to enter a degree/certificate program, apprenticeship, or on-the-job training in the marine trades; to build career ladders for new entrants to marine trades; and to engage marine trades employers in supporting the model.
To educate and encourage medical students, residents and advanced practice clinicians to provide abortion care in their future practices; and to ensure that access to abortion care is available to underserved women.
To launch an environmental health initiative to raise awareness of environmental health issues among people of faith, engage religious leaders, strengthen environmental health work of religious organizations and in the larger interfaith community, and increase the capacity of the faith…
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.
To increase access to and knowledge of emergency contraception and other contraceptive options in the Latina community, and to ensure access to EC among Latina women.
To ensure that pharmacists and pharmacies do not deny women access to prescription contraception.
To establish the State Environmental Partnership in order to block federal efforts to pre-empt state environmental, consumer and public health standards that are more rigorous than equivalent federal standards.