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Here are some excellent organizations that inform and are working to protect us.

Breast Cancer Fund

The Breast Cancer Fund works to connect the dots between breast cancer and exposures to chemicals and radiation in our everyday environments.

We translate the growing body of scientific evidence linking breast cancer and environmental exposures into public education and advocacy campaigns that protect our health and reduce breast cancer risk.

We help transform how our society thinks about and uses chemicals and radiation, with the goal of preventing breast cancer and sustaining health and life.

We find practical solutions so that our children, grandchildren and planet can thrive.

Our Mission
The Breast Cancer Fund works to prevent breast cancer by eliminating our exposure to toxic chemicals and radiation linked to the disease.

Our Vision
As a result of our work, we envision a world in which:

We live without fear of losing our breasts or our lives as a result of what we’ve eaten, touched or breathed because the environmental causes of breast cancer have been identified and eliminated.

Most breast cancer can be prevented, while safe detection and treatment of the disease are the standard and available to all.

We have succeeded in informing and mobilizing a public that is unrelenting and holds government and business accountable for contaminating our bodies and our environment.
Public policy protects our health and is guided by the principle that credible evidence of harm rather than proof of harm is sufficient to mandate policy changes in the public’s best interest.

We have done justice to the women whose struggle and dedication inspired our resolve.

The Silent Spring Institute

Silent Spring Institute builds on a unique partnership of scientists, physicians, public health advocates, and community activists to identify and break the links between the environment and women’s health, especially breast cancer. “Silent Spring builds on a collaboration between activists and scientists who are dedicated to finding preventable causes of breast cancer,” Brody says. “This partnership allows us to take on prevention-driven environmental research questions that have been ignored by the cancer research establishment. And the Institute has been increasingly recognized as a model of community-based research and empowerment.”

Cancer Prevention Coalition

The Cancer Prevention Coalition (CPC), which opened its national office in Chicago in July 1994, is a unique nationwide coalition of leading independent experts in cancer prevention and public health, together with citizen activists and representatives of organized labor, public interest, environmental, and women’s health groups. The Coalition has about 100 local offices in the U.S., as well as international offices.

Our goal is to reduce escalating cancer rates through a comprehensive strategy of outreach, public education, advocacy, and public policy initiatives to establish prevention as the nation’s foremost cancer policy.

Environmental Health News

Mission

Environmental Health News is an independent, foundation-funded news organization that reports and publishes news stories on environmental topics and provides daily access to news from other worldwide media. We cover environmental issues that may affect the health of people, ecosystems and wildlife around the world.

Articles by our journalists are published at EHN.org and provided to newspapers and other media. The content is under the control of Editor in Chief Marla Cone, an award-winning environmental journalist. We also offer access to hundreds of articles published each day in the world press, and our searchable news archives date back to 2002. For questions or comments about EHN, contact Cone at mcone@ehn.org.

Our daily electronic newsletter, Above The Fold, and our weekly children’s health and energy newsletters are available for free. A publication of Environmental Health Sciences, EHN is funded by foundations and does not accept funding from interest groups. We are a member of the Investigative News Network.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG)

The Environmental Working Group is a team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers, and computer programmers who pore over government data, legal documents, scientific studies, and complete their own laboratory tests to expose threats to public health and the environment. Their goal is to build awareness and to seek solutions to resolving policy failures within our government regulatory systems. Their research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know.

Skin Deep – Cosmetics and Personal & Infant Care Safety Database

Cell Phone Radiation Guide

Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce

National Drinking Water Database

Healthy Child Healthy World

As parents, we do whatever is necessary to prevent harm to our children. Yet, there are many invisible risks that are difficult to identify and prevent. OUR MISSION
HEALTHY CHILD HEALTHY WORLD’S MISSION IS TO EMPOWER PARENTS TO TAKE ACTION AND PROTECT CHILDREN FROM HARMFUL CHEMICALS. Healthy Child Healthy World is a California non-profit organization that works to create programs and initiative that:

• Demand corporate accountability
• Engage communities for collective action
• Support safer chemicals and products
• Influence legislative and regulatory reform

By working with manufacturers and supporting policy initiatives, Healthy Child has helped to transform the marketplace to encourage safer environments for children. For the past 20 years, Healthy Child has provided access to critical information that encourages smarter lifestyle choices to reduce toxic chemical exposure in homes and communities to become a trusted resource for parents. Healthy Child’s vision is a world where every child has the opportunity to grow-up in a healthy and safe environment.

HealthyStuff.org – Toys

HealthyStuff.org includes test results for over 5,000 products. In cases where toys had many different components (building blocks of different colors, for example, or dolls with fabric and plastic), researchers attempted to collect a useful number of samples from each product. For this reason, the data reflects over 15,000 individual samples of different product components. The testing methodology includes an X-ray technology that identifies elements on or near the surface of a product, called an XRF analyzer (see methodology for more details) and lab testing for lead. Based on these results, each product tested was given an overall rating, as well as an individual chemical rating for cadmium, chlorine, lead, arsenic, bromine and mercury.. A detailed description of the rating system is provided in the product rating section.

Safe toys and children’s products search engine.

Pesticide Action Network North America

Our mission: Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN North America, or PANNA) works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens’ action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable society.

PANUPS: News Updates Service

PAN Pesticide Database

PANNA Resource Library

Center for Health, Environment & Justice

CHEJ Community Assistance is an organization whose mission is to help communities fight back.

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice can help you and your community if you are facing an environmental health risk. From leaking landfills and polluted drinking water to incinerators and hazardous waste sites, we can help you take action towards a healthier future.

CHEJ Community Assistance

CHEJ Organizing Services

Since our founding, CHEJ’s experienced organizing staff has helped thousands of community groups form, grow and win local fights. We provide personal assistance over the phone, in person, and over the Internet, to help individuals form a group, define their goals, and develop a plan to acheive them. By providing groups with the tools they need to organize and win, CHEJ assists community based groups in carrying out their fights in their own self-sufficient way.

So that we can best assist you, please call CHEJ at (703) 237-2249.

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

The Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition represents more than 11 million individuals and includes parents, health professionals, advocates for learning and developmental disabilities, reproductive health advocates, environmentalists and businesses from across the nation.

Our coalition of diverse groups is united by their common concern about toxic chemicals in our homes, places of work, and products we use every day

Resources and Links to Public Health Organizations, Health Care Providers/Research Institutions, Learning and Developmental Disabilities Organizations, National Environmental Organizations, Environmental Justice Organizations, Parent Organizations, Reproductive Health Organizations, State Advocacy and Community Organizations, and many more.

TEDX – The Endocrine Disruption Exchange

Why is TEDX needed? The human health consequences of endocrine disruption are dire. Yet, no chemical has been regulated in the U.S. to date because of its endocrine disrupting effects. The U.S. government has failed to respond to the evolving science of endocrine disruption. While much remains to be learned in regard to the nature and extent of the impact of endocrine disruptors on human health, enough is known now to assume a precautionary approach should be taken. TEDX provides concerned persons and organizations with a science-based foundation for individuals to act and promote responsive public policy-making. Moreover, as federal government resources devoted to research on endocrine disruption have diminished due to budget cuts, TEDX must assume an even more prominent role in developing and disseminating information on the human and environmental impacts of endocrine disruption.

Endocrine Disruption Introduction and Overview

Endocrine Disruption: The Male Predicament

Our Stolen Future

Our Stolen Future is a scientific detective story that explores the emerging science of endocrine disruption: how some synthetic chemicals interfere with the ways that hormones work in humans and wildlife.

This web site, http://www.ourstolenfuture.org, is the web home for the authors of Our Stolen Future, where we provide regular updates about the cutting edge of science related to endocrine disruption. We will also post information about ongoing policy debates, as well as new suggestions about what you can do as a consumer and citizen to minimize risks related to hormonally-disruptive contaminants.

We want to make it easy for you to quickly get up-to-date information about this issue, to get some insights into what new scientific findings mean in a broader context, to explore the existing scientific literature and to find ready access to other places on the web that carry information about endocrine disruption.

Anyone who has followed this issue or watched the response to the book knows that not everyone agrees with our interpretation of the science or with our recommendations. Advances in science are always surrounded by debate–and we think that’s healthy. So we’ve included references to a range of the critics’ publications and even links to their web sites. Go see for yourself.

Our Stolen Future

The Science & Environmental Health Network

Mission
The Science and Environmental Health Network engages communities and governments in the effective application of science to protect and restore public and ecosystem health.

The Network: Encourages the practice of science in the public interest and the accurate interpretation of scientific information;
Identifies information, ethical concepts, and logic that have the potential to provoke essential change; and
Helps communities, organizations, and governments develop and implement sound environmental policies.

The Science & Environmental Health Network Blog

Updates of Interest & In The News Reports

Living Downstream Essays on Environmental Health Issues

Sandra Steingraber is the author of Living Downstream, newly published in second edition by Da Capo Press to coincide with the release of the documentary film adaptation. This essay is one in a weekly series by Sandra – published at http://www.livingdownstream.com – exploring how the environment is within us.

Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health.

Sandra’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue.

SafeLawns.org for a Healthier Planet

Mission

To create a broad-based coalition of non- and for-profit organizations committed to educating society about the benefits of environmentally responsible lawn care and gardening, and effect a quantum change in consumer and industry behavior.

In the spring of 2006, with water quality, chemical exposure and global warming emerging as mainstream issues, Paul Tukey, author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual, contacted a group of motivated and qualified professionals from the for-profit and non-profit sectors to try and figure out how to take organic turf care and grounds maintenance in the United States to the next level.

Sixteen people gathered together at the American Horticultural Society’s River Farm in Alexandria, VA the following in July to help work out the vision that would become SafeLawns.org, and in the past four years, SafeLawns has touched literally millions through the Internet, print and broadcast media, and face to face contact at green industry shows, conferences and garden club meetings across America.

Other highlights have included a four-acre organic makeover on the National Mall, the production of more than 20 award-winning How-to-Videos about organic lawn care, and the production of a full-length feature documentary about the origin of the anti-lawn pesticide movement, titled, “A Chemical Reaction.”

A Chemical Reaction

Environmental Health News Published by Environmental Health Sciences

The mission of Environmental Health News is to advance the public’s understanding of environmental health issues by publishing its own journalism and providing access to worldwide news about a variety of subjects related to the health of humans, wildlife and ecosystems.

To subscribe please click the link below.

Environmental Health News Subscription Page

EPA ToxRefDB (Toxicity Reference Database)

ToxRefDB (Toxicity Reference Database) captures thousands of in vivo animal toxicity studies on hundreds of chemicals. The database: Stores detailed study design, dosing, and observed treatment-related effects using standardized vocabulary. Provides detailed chemical toxicity data, for the first time, in a publically accessible and searchable format. Enables linkages to other public hazard, exposure and risk resources by integrating with ACToR (Aggregated Computational Toxicology Resource). Captures over 30 years and $2 billion of animal testing results. Connects to another EPA chemical screening tool called ToxCast, a multi-year, multi-million dollar effort that uses advanced science tools to help efficiently (~$20K per chemical) understand biological processes impacted by chemicals that may lead to adverse health effects.

Louisiana Bucket Brigade

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is a 501(c)(3) environmental health and justice organization working with communities that neighbor the state’s oil refineries and chemical plants. The EPA-approved “bucket” is a simple, community friendly tool that fenceline neighbors use to take air samples. We complement the community group by adding a level of technical expertise to their work. We provide this tool and training to community members to monitor and expose industrial pollution as it happens. We assist residents in their fight to reduce pollution and protect public health. We work with community groups to help them take air samples and achieve their goals, be it relocation away from a polluting facility, reduced pollution, or a moratorium on facility expansions. The more evidence the communities gather, the more power they have to attain their goals.

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Sierra Club

Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself. We are the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. And our founder, John Muir, appears on the back of the California quarter.

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