Environmental Health Strategy Center

The Environmental Health Strategy Center works to protect human health by reducing exposure to toxic chemicals, expanding the use of safer alternatives, and building partnerships that focus on the environment as a public health priority.

We believe that everyone has a right:

•	to a healthy environment wherever they live, work or play;

•	to breathe clean air, drink safe water and eat food free from harmful chemicals;

•	to participate meaningfully in decisions that affect their health and well being.

We believe that government and corporations must be held accountable to halt the trespass of our bodies, workplaces and communities with toxic pollutants.

We are committed to a just transition toward clean production of goods and services that provide a healthy, environmentally sustainable future for all.

The Environmental Health Strategy Center aims to phase out the persistent toxic chemicals in Maine within a single generation.

We will know we have succeeded when freshwater fish are safe to eat again, when drinking water from wells no longer presents harm and when dioxin and other toxic residues are absent once more from our food supply. Our mission will be accomplished when the greatest lifetime exposure to persistent toxic chemicals no longer occurs during the breast-feeding of our babies.

Our success will be marked by the healthy development of our children and the elimination of toxic chemical risk factors to human disease, disability and death.