Resources and Links
Reports
Pesticides
- Turning NY State Schools Away from Pesticide Use
by Judy Braiman and Audrey Newcomb, Rochesterians Against the Misuse of Pesticides RAMP
Toxic Flame Retardants
- Sick of Dust: Chemicals in Common Products — A Needless Health Risk in Our Homes
March 2005, Pat Costner, Beverley Thorpe and Alexandra McPherson - Mothers’ Milk: Record levels of toxic fire retardants found in American mothers’ breast milk
September 2003, Environmental Working Group
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
- A Review of the Availability of Plastic Substitutes for Soft PVC in Toys
February 1999, Joel Tickner, Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts at Lowell - PVC-Bad News Comes in Threes: The Poison Plastic, Health Hazards and the Looming Waste Crisis
December 2004, Center for Environment, Health and Justice and the Environmental Health Strategy Center
Other
- Toxic at Any Speed: Chemicals in Cars and the Need for Safe Alternatives
January 2006, The Ecology Center
Children’s Environmental Health
- Center for Children’s Health and the Environment
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- NYC Department of Health
- NYS Department of Health
Chemicals Policy
- Lowell Center for Sustainable Production Chemicals Policy Initiative
- World Wildlife Fund — EU Chemicals Policy
Clean Production/Design/Toxic-use Reduction
Environmental Justice
Green Chemistry
- American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute
- Center for Green Chemistry, UMass Lowell
- Environmental Protect Agency Green Chemistry Program
- New England Green Chemistry Consortium
- Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute
Labor
- Apollo Alliance
- New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
- Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health
Pesticides
- Environmental Working Group’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Products
- New York Public Interest Research Group
- Pesticide Action Network of North America
Precaution
- BE SAFE Precautionary Policy Clearinghouse
- Center for Health, Environment and Justice
- Science and Environmental Health Network
- Lowell Center Precautionary Principle Project
OTHER STATE ALLIANCES
Massachusetts
Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow
Maine
Alliance for a Clean & Healthy Maine
Washington