

One in four Americans lives within four miles of a Superfund site – uncontrolled or abandoned places containing some of the nation’s most toxic waste. Working to protect public health and the varied environments of local communities, the groups in this category seek to hold corporations and the government accountable. They work to clean up hazardous, nuclear and toxic waste, while supporting positive policy changes to reduce and eliminate their use.
Total given in this category in fiscal year 2008: $35,900

www.actionconsommation.org
40 rue de Malte
Paris,
France
75011
France
T:
+ 33 1 48 05 86 81
www.actionconsommation.org
Grant Amount:$4,000
Action Consommation promotes ethical consumption as an economic and political tool, and a factor of social transformation, to raise awareness of the power and responsibility of consumers as a collective.


www.cniid.org
21 rue Alexandre Dumas
Paris,
France
75011
France
T:
+33 1 55 78 28 60
www.cniid.org
Grant Amount:$11,000
CNIID seeks to provide public information on waste issues and works to prevent waste and its toxicity.


www.greenaction.org
1095 Market St., 608
San Francisco,
CA
94103
United States
T:
(415) 252-0822
www.greenaction.org
Grant Amount:$3,000
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice is a multiracial organization that mobilizes communities to win victories against polluters and change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and foster environmental justice.


www.oregon-health.org
819 SE Morrison
Ste. 235
Portland,
OR
97214
United States
T:
(503) 233-1510
www.oregon-health.org
Grant Amount:$2,500
The Oregon Center for Environmental Health is a statewide organization working to protect public health and the environment by promoting alternatives to the use, manufacture, release and disposal of toxic chemicals.

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