Coming Clean Inc

Programs: Coming clean is networked with grassroots groups in disproportionately-impacted communities in politically-significant states. Through our special structure of 200 diverse organizations, coming clean is able to connect grassroots organizations to big green groups, business and shareholder associations, state policy groups, market campaigners, technical experts, and others, while still ensuring leadership by and direction from the grassroots. Coming clean coordinates a broad range of projects and campaigns for market reform, safe chemical policy, clean energy solutions and environmental justice, including the campaign for healthier solutions (aka the dollar store campaign). Coming clean is also home to the environmental justice health alliance (ejha), a network of some 30 environmental justice groups from across the u. S. 2017 accomplishments include:in a major victory for public health, the consumer product safety commission (cpsc) banned several harmful phthalate chemicals from plastics used in childrens toys and child care articles. The new agency rule on phthalates came in response to a legal settlement from a lawsuit brought by the natural resources defense council (nrdc), the environmental justice health alliance (ejha) and breast cancer prevention partners (bcpp) against the cpsc in december 2016. The final rule permanently bans five types of phthalates from use in childrens toys and child care articles. These chemicals are linked to endocrine disruption, cancer and other health impacts. Working with a coalition of national and delaware-based organizations, coming clean and ejha released new public health and mapping information showing that people in southbridge, newport, and other northern delaware environmental justice communities suffer dramatically higher risk of cancers and respiratory diseases linked to environmental pollution. This new report, environmental justice for delaware, describes how these neighborhoods are in close proximity to pollution from numerous nearby epa-designated brownfields and superfund sites, facilities listed in epas toxic release inventory, and high-risk facilities regulated under epas risk management plan program. This pollution combines with poverty and other factors resulting in dramatically increased risk for higher rates of diseases linked to environmental health disparities. The report was produced in conjunction with the union of concerned scientists and delaware concerned residents for environmental justice. The campaign for safer solutions compelled dollar tree to set a 2020 deadline for its suppliers to disclose and eliminate from its products 17 chemicals of high concern. This ban is the most aggressive taken by major chain. Still, the dollar store has yet to produce any meaningful evidence that the ban is being implemented. Coming clean provided trainings for grassroots allies on the purpose and organizing opportunities in the clean power plan and other regulatory actions. Coming clean provided financial resources to nine grassroots, environmental justice partner groups and more than 30 received other capacity-building support, including communications, travel and meeting, and translation services.