Protecting Our Health, Children, Communities

Over 200 diseases and disabilities are now linked to toxins in our everyday environments.  Toxic chemicals and heavy metals are widely used in manufacturing and threaten health and child development.  Many types of cancer, as well as learning disabilities, asthma, infertility, Parkinson’s Disease, brain damage and birth defects are now linked to the toxic substances found in our daily environments.

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The Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut is a partnership of organizations and individuals working together to reduce toxic chemicals that threaten human health and the environment.  Please join us in calling on government and manufacturers to take hazardous toxins out of their products!

Together we can convince decision-makers to protect the health of children, workers and communities by reducing toxic hazards. 

The Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut is leading statewide and local campaigns to reduce and eliminate toxic chemical exposures in our everyday lives – in buildings, schools and workplaces, air, water and food, and in consumer products.  Our goal is to replace hazardous toxic substances with proven, safer alternatives.    

Be Part of the Campaign!

 

Coalition Members

as of August, 2008

We're a diverse partnership of Connecticut organizations:

• Administrative and Residual Employees Union # 4200 (A & R 4200)

• Bridgeport East End Community Council

• Clean Water Action

• Community Health Network of CT

• ConnectiCOSH  

• CT Association of Directors of Health (CADH)

• CT Association of Public Health Nurses (CAPHN)

• CT Association of School Nurses

• CT Chapter, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO-CT)  

• CT Citizen Action Group 

• CT Coalition for Environmental Justice  (CCEJ)

• CT Employees Union Independent (CEUI)

• CT Foundation for Environmentally Safe Schools (ConnFESS)

• CT Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)

• CT Nurses Association  (CNA)

• CT Public Health Association  (CPHA)

• CT Public Interest Research Group (ConnPIRG)

• CT State African-American Affairs Commission

• CT State Council of Machinists

• Council 4 American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

• Ecological Health Organization  (ECHO)

• Environment Connecticut

• Fairfield County Environmental Justice Network

• Greater Hartford Central Labor Council
• Interreligious Eco-Justice Network
• Milford Environmental Concerns Coalition
• Muhammad Islamic Center's Health Awareness Advisory Council
• North Hartford Seniors in Action

• Norwalk Federation of Teachers

• Sierra Club Connecticut Chapter 

• Teamsters 559

• Toxics Action Center

• The Watershed Partnership