Institute for a Sustainable Future
To promote the phaseout of PVC plastic and its chemical precursors; specifically, to produce a report on PVC pipes in construction that can spur adoption of safer alternatives.
To promote the phaseout of PVC plastic and its chemical precursors; specifically, to produce a report on PVC pipes in construction that can spur adoption of safer alternatives.
To expand health insurance coverage of contraceptives using litigation, research, policy analysis, public education, coalition-building and media relations.
To work with Massachusetts health care institutions to create career ladders for health care workers; expand resources for job training programs for health care workers; and conduct outreach to 3,000 health care workers.
To mobilize the medical and scientific communities to investigate human rights abuses and to promote and protect human rights around the world.
To improve enforcement of environmental laws and regulations at both state and federal levels, and to blunt concerted attempts by the Bush Administration to weaken enforcement of environmental regulations.
To raise public and policymakers’ awareness of environmental threats to the Snake River Aquifer from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in order to stop current waste disposal practices and press for responsible cleanup of high-level radioactive waste.
To develop a STRIVE program for individuals convicted of crimes and on probation or parole.
To enable Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute to provide strong economic arguments in support of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow’s proposal to phase out persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals in Massachusetts, and in support of similar efforts in…
To research and prepare an annual report on human rights in Chile, which will be used to promote human rights standards within the country.
To support the Lowell Center’s role as technical and policy advisor to the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, which will work to achieve fundamental reform in state-level decisionmaking about chemicals use that stresses prevention of harm to public health and…