Environmental Health Strategy Center
To steadily drive down use and production of 100 priority chemicals in consumer products in favor of truly safer alternatives.
To steadily drive down use and production of 100 priority chemicals in consumer products in favor of truly safer alternatives.
To leverage the burgeoning body of science on health effects from toxic chemicals in the environment to secure state administrative actions and support federal policy reforms.
To build the momentum for expanding Maine-grown food, assist food growers and processers to become profitable, look for ways to access larger markets (institutions and urban markets) and identify policy barriers that hinder farmers in accessing institutional customers.
To steadily drive down use and production of 100 priority chemicals in consumer products in favor of truly safer alternatives.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency, clean energy, and the transition away from fossil fuels.
To push New England states to be clean energy leaders by promoting ambitious goals for solar power and offshore wind, defending existing clean energy policies, and strengthening the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and shrink the carbon footprint of the commercial and industrial sector by establishing new regulatory structures and services needed to stimulate private investments in these buildings.
To accelerate government actions on clean energy by bringing mainstream business and labor leaders to bear on behalf of environmental goals and objectives.
To carry out an eighteen-month participatory planning process for the future of Maines food system, and to connect that process with those underway in the other five New England states and for the region as a whole.
To form “buy local” wholesale purchase partnerships with Maine farmers and to expand direct farm-to-pantry food distributions to help eliminate hunger and poor diets for needy Maine families.