Our Mission

The Center for Environmental Health protects people from toxic chemicals and promotes business products and practices that are safe for public health and the environment.

Our Vision

We work in pursuit of a world in which all people live, work, learn, and play in healthy environments.

Our Values

We Believe That:

• Democracy, liberty, equality, and justice share an important underlying conviction:  that all people have the right to live in a healthy environment.

• By working together, government, community members, NGOs, and responsible businesses can eliminate the growing threat to human health posed by toxic chemicals and environmentally irresponsible business practices.

• Air, water, food, and consumer products should be free of dangerous and untested industrial chemicals.

• Our government should invoke the Precautionary Principle, requiring that manufacturers and users of industrial chemicals demonstrate the safety of their chemicals, from their production through their use and disposal, before exposing people to those chemicals.

• Consumers, workers, and communities have the right to know (1) the industrial chemicals to which they are exposed and (2) the health effects that accompany those exposures.

• People of color and economically marginalized people face the worst exposures to toxic chemicals and suffer disproportionate health impacts from those exposures.

• Because we all share an interest in a healthy, prosperous economy, we also share an interest in Environmental Justice.

• The health of our economy should be measured not by how much it consumes, but by how effectively it meets the needs of all of its people.

• Advocates for public health should partner with the exemplary businesses that are demonstrating the bottom-line benefit to be gained by conducting business in a way that respects human health, the environment, and social justice.

• In addition to long-term returns, the marketplace should provide immediate, short-term financial rewards and incentives to companies that promote and respect human health, the environment, and social justice.

• The movement to eliminate dangerous chemicals must move forward in partnership with the movements working to address other pressing social justice issues of our day.