To convince targeted companies to commit to removing, reducing, or labeling genetically engineered foods in their product lines pending the results of long-term safety testing. This effort will be conducted through shareholder resolutions, dialogues with companies, and distribution of research…
To provide a general support grant.
To improve corporate board and institutional investor policies on climate change in New England.
To build public awareness about the ubiquitous nature of hazardous chemicals commonly used in consumer products by analyzing household dust samples collected in states where chemicals policy reform or phaseout campaigns are already active. The chemicals found in the household…
To achieve fundamental reform in state-level decisionmaking about chemicals use that stresses prevention of harm to public health and the environment. In the next few years, the alliance seeks to establish policy reforms in Massachusetts that can be used as…
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 develop body burden testing and other environmental monitoring as key tools for…
To build consumer demand in New England for electricity generated from new renewable energy resources and to drive the development for such projects in New England.
To serve as a convener of environmental health networks and campaigns on health and chemicals; to help guide and stimulate increased foundation support for environmental health issues; to participate in a coalition of state and national organizations working to ensure…
To reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy by giving advocates information to support state and federal family planning programs for low-income women and teens and reaching media representatives with this information.
To improve the quality and accessibility of early abortion services, particularly manual vacuum aspiration.