To improve corporate policies and practices on greenhouse gas emissions in New England by securing carbon reduction commitments from companies and by generating business and investor support for climate change policy solutions at the regional and national levels.
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 in children.
To serve as an incubator for campaigns and strategies that implement chemical phaseouts from key market sectors, weaken the role of the chemical industry in devising regulations, and use body burden testing and other environmental monitoring as key tools for…
To establish incentives for the purchase (and indirectly, the production) of motor vehicles with lower greenhouse gas emissions in Connecticut.
To investigate and document Clean Air Act violations by coal-fired power plants in the Ohio Valley; to bring citizen lawsuits against the owners to require them to reduce the plants’ mercury and fine particle emissions; and to use the lawsuits…
To increase the number of non-English speaking home health aide candidates who are eligible for training, thereby increasing the number of applicants and graduates in the health aide training program.
To educate young women on college campuses about emergency contraception and engage them in campaigns to increase access to EC through their campus health centers.
To train low-income, out-of-school youth from Yonkers and place them in internships and jobs.
To move the health care sector to make environmental health issues an important criterion 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…
To ensure that emerging green building standards incorporate health-based criteria that recommend and/or reward the elimination of building materials responsible for bioaccumulative toxic releases to the environment, such as mercury and dioxin; and to encourage the health care, religious and…