To compel the HoltraChem Manufacturing Company and Mallinckrodt Inc. to clean up mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine, which was operated by these companies.
To implement a successful pre-apprenticeship training program for residents of New York City public housing.
To support fifteen Latina women in a community-based approach to microenterprise/workforce development.
To raise public and policymaker awareness about the health impacts of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed mercury rule.
To create a sustainable and effective job training program for disadvantaged youth.
To expose the Bush Administration’s poor record of enforcing environmental laws by: working with environmental officials in key states to build support for and implement policies that demonstrate the stark differences between the lax federal approach and more responsible state…
To protect the Snake River Aquifer and the people who depend on it from further nuclear contamination.
To establish a STRIVE training unit within the Suffolk County House of Corrections.
To analyze the effects on foreign trade and investment flows that the European Union’s new chemicals policy, known as REACH, will have for US markets both nationally and in key states; and to analyze and defend the economics of precautionary…
To maintain and advance existing smart growth gains in Vermont by stopping big-box commercial developments from being built outside community centers; and to educate the public about the economic, environmental and community impacts of big-box development on the scale Wal-Mart…