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Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow
The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (AHT) is a coalition of citizens, scientists, health professionals, workers and educators seeking preventive action on toxic hazards. www.healthytomorrow.org
Beyond Pesticides
Beyond Pesticides (formerly National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides as a nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns. www.beyondpesticides.org
The Body Burden
This Web site reports results from the most comprehensive study ever conducted of multiple chemical contaminants in humans. Through the Human Toxome Project at the Environmental Working Group, scientists, engineers, and medical doctors use cutting edge biomonitoring techniques to test blood, urine, breast milk and other human tissues for industrial chemicals that enter the human body as pollution via food, air, and water, or from exposures to ingredients in everyday consumer products. www.bodyburden.org
Environmental Health Perspectives
The mission of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most current and credible news of the field. Search on pesticides. www.ehponline.org
Environment and Human Health, Inc.
EHHI is dedicated to protecting human health from environmental harms through research, education and promotion of sound public policy. www.ehhi.org
Environmental Working Group
At EWG, our team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions. Our research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know. www.ewg.org
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCA)
The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems. NCAP is dedicated to: keeping you informed about pesticide hazards and alternatives, increasing the adoption of alternatives to pesticides in agriculture, working with concerned citizens to challenge unnecessary spray programs, participating in the development of public policy relating to pesticides, fighting for the public's right to know all the ingredients in pesticide products, promoting pesticide use reduction. www.pesticide.org
The Pesticide Education Center
The Pesticide Education Center is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 to educate workers and the public about the hazards of pesticides to human health and the environment providing critical information on health effects and safer alternative pest control methods to the public. Our mission is to educate consumers to make more informed choices to protect themselves, their families, their pets, their neighbors, and the environment from toxic pesticides. www.pesticides.org
Silent Spring Institute
Silent Spring InstituteE is a non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer. www.silentspring.org
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