Grantee Profile: Center for Health, Environment and Justice

The Center for Health, Environment, and Justice trains and assists local people to fight for justice, become empowered to protect their communities from environmental threats, and build strong, locally controlled organizations. The grant supports a project to use the findings of an Environmental Protection Agency report to motivate changes in dioxin policies and regulations that protect public health, conduct media outreach, and help citizen groups in the Northwest conduct campaigns aimed at stopping dioxin exposure in their communities.

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• Inactive Programs

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The Center for Health, Environment, and Justice trains and assists local people to fight for justice, become empowered to protect their communities from environmental threats, and build strong, locally controlled organizations. The grant supports a project to publish and release a summary of the EPAÍs dioxin reassessment report to groups in the Northwest and across the country, and to conduct extensive media outreach regarding the report.

Regions

• Montana
• Alaska
• Oregon
• Idaho
• Washington

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

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The Center for Health, Environment, and Justice trains and assists local people to fight for justice, become empowered to protect their communities from environmental threats, and build strong, locally controlled organizations. The grant supports a project to publish and release a reassessment report on dioxin while urging the EPA to release its own long-delayed report. The organization will also work with groups in Washington State in their efforts to eliminate dioxin.

Regions

• Montana
• Alaska
• Washington
• Idaho
• Oregon

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Contact