Links to Other Community Right-to-Know Resources -
Other organizations working on pollution prevention and clean production:
Physicians for Social Responsibility, National Environmental Trust, and the Learning Disabilities Association of America have issued a report, “Polluting our Future (http://environet.policy.net/health/neighborhood/cehfuture/), that uses TRI data to quantify water and air discharges of neurological and developmental toxins totaling 24 billion pounds a year.
The Good
Neighbor Project (http://gnp.enviroweb.org/) provides
technical, legal, and strategic support to concerned plant workers and
neighbors to prevent pollution and promote sustainable local industry.
The Environmental Working Group’s Chemical Industry Archives (http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/)
consist of thousands of internal documents that reveal how chemical
companies and their trade associations have concealed information about
serious health risks to workers and the public posed by their products.
The Coming Clean Campaign (http://www.comeclean.org/) is a national coalition working to ensure the public's right to know about the production, use, release, and test results of toxic chemicals.
Citizens' Environmental Coalition (http://family.knick.net/cectoxic/) is a statewide grassroots organization of 110 groups and 13,000 individual members working to eliminate pollution in New York State. CEC uses the TRI as a means to “empower, educate and assist people concerned about environmental problems.”
Ohio Citizen Action/Citizens Policy Center
promotes expansion of toxic chemical right-to-know laws as a tool for
negotiating “good neighbor agreements” with industrial facilities in Ohio
(http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/prevention/goodneighbor.html).
Environmental
Health Coalition (http://www.environmentalhealth.org/about.html)
is a grassroots organization located in San Diego that promotes worker and
community right-to know as a way to facilitate environmental justice.
For more information, contact INFORM, 212-361-2400.
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