Environmental and Health Advocacy
Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine
The Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine is a diverse coalition of Maine-based organizations that have embarked upon a multi-year public health campaign to phase out the long-lived toxic chemicals that build up in the food web and our bodies.
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Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow
AHT is a coalition of citizens, scientists, health professionals, workers, and educators seeking preventive action on toxic hazards. AHT’s goal is to correct fundamental flaws in government policies that allow harm to our health and environment, create proactive policies to prevent harm before the damage is done, and to choose the safest alternatives.
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Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is working to protect your health by eliminating the use of chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems.
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Clean Production Action
Clean Production Action is a network of environmental, labor, and academic institutions dedicated to technical assistance, outreach, and advocacy on cleaner production and product policy. The network provides links between US and European advocacy organizations on chemicals and product policies.
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Collaborative on Health and Environment
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is a diverse partnership network of individuals and organizations working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors.
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Coming Clean
Coming Clean is a network of groups and individuals whose common goal is to work together on chemical policies and campaigns to protect public health and the environment from exposures to harmful and unstudied chemicals.
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Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund is a leading national nonprofit organization that links science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society’s most urgent environmental problems. Environmental Defense has initiated several groundbreaking efforts on ignorance about toxic substances and the need for policies to address this, including the Scorecard database.
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Environmental Working Group
EWG is a not-for-profit environmental research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food. EWG has conducted pioneering research on the body burden of chemicals.
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Greenpeace
Our core values are reflected in our environmental campaign work: We 'bear witness' to environmental destruction in a peaceful, non-violent manner. We use non-violent confrontation to raise the level and quality of public debate. In exposing threats to the environment and finding solutions we have no permanent allies or adversaries. We ensure our financial independence from political or commercial interests. We seek solutions for, and promote open, informed debate about society's environmental choices.
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Inform, Inc
Inform, Inc. is an independent research organization that examines the effects of business practices on the environment and on human health. It prepares reports on the use of toxic substances, preventive policies, and alternative materials that are used by government, industry, and environmental leaders around the world. Inform has conducted extensive research on toxic chemical use and reduction, product policy, and green procurement.
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Investor Environmental Health Network
The Investor Environmental Health Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers, advised by nongovernmental organizations, concerned about the financial and public health risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals policies.
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Health Care Without Harm
Health Care Without Harm is a campaign to transform the health care industry worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment. The campaign has worked to substitute problem materials in hospitals such as PVC plastics, mercury and latex.
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Healthy Building Network
HBN is a national network of environmental and health activists, socially responsible investment advocates, green building professionals and others who are interested in promoting healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment.
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National Pollution Prevention Roundtable
The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable is an organization representing local, state and federal government officials working on implementation of pollution prevention. The organization takes a lead role in promoting pollution prevention strategies at the local, state and federal levels as well as supporting private initiatives on pollution prevention.
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National Resources Defense Council
NRDC is a non-profit organization that uses law and science, to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. NRDC has taken an active role in examining links between environmental exposures and effects on human health.
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Oregon Toxics Alliance
The Alliance is a statewide grassroots organization working to eliminate contamination and unnecessary toxics use and the harm they cause to human health and the environment. OTA is committed to achieving fundamental changes in the practices and policies that permit toxics use and contamination.
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Right to Know Network
The Network provides critical information on toxic substances and their emissions in the environment. The Network uses government databases on pollution to provide critical information to citizen organizations.
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Safer States
Safer States is a network of diverse environmental health coalitions and organizations in states around the country that share a bold and urgent vision. We believe families, communities, and the environment should be protected from the devastating impacts of our society’s heavy use of chemicals. We believe that new state and national chemical policies will contribute to the formation of a cleaner, greener economy.
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The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
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Washington Toxics Coalition
WTC is a non-profit, member-based organization dedicated to protecting public health and the environment by identifying and promoting alternatives to toxic chemicals and pollution.
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