Steering Committee Partners

 

Clean and Healthy New York

Clean and Healthy New York works to turn off the tap on toxic chemicals and promote safer alternatives, a sustainable economy, and a healthier world. 
 

Earthjustice

Earthjustice is an nonprofit environmental law organization focused on wielding the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, preserving magnificent places and wildlife, advancing clean energy, and combating climate change.
 

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest

NYLPI works to protect civil rights and achieve lived equality for communities in need. NYLPI combines the power of law, organizing, and the private bar to make lasting change where it’s needed most.
 

New York Sustainable Business Council

NYSBC is an alliance of businesses and business organizations committed to advancing a vibrant, just, and sustainable economy in New York State.

Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter

The Sierra Club’s mission is “explore, enjoy, and protect the planet.” The Atlantic Chapter works to advance the chapter's conservation objectives in New York State's administrative, elected, and public arenas.  

WE ACT for Environmental Justice

WE ACT builds healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate in the creation of sound & fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. 
 

Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition

The Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition fights breast cancer through advocacy, research, and outreach. GNBCC also educates the public on ways to avoid toxic environmental exposures.
 

Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition

HBCAC is a not-for-profit grassroots organization dedicated to the ultimate eradication of breast cancer through education and awareness. HBCAC focuses on prevention methods while actively helping those who are faced with a positive diagnosis.
 

New York League of Conservation Voters

NYLCV fights climate change, conserves land and water, and protects public health in New York State through political action.

New York State United Teachers

Through a representative democratic structure, NYSUT improves the professional, economic and personal lives of its members and their families, strengthens the institutions in which they work, and furthers the cause of social justice through the trade union movement.

JUSTGREEN PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

  • Alliance @ IBM

  • Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

  • American Academy of Pediatrics, New York State, Chapters 1, 2 & 3

  • American Sustainable Business Council

  • Arbor Hill Environmental Justice Corp.

  • Association of Comparative and Environmental Toxicology Students

  • Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester

  • Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes

  • Center for Environmental Health

  • Center for Health, Environment & Justice

  • Citizens Campaign for the Environment

  • Citizens’ Environmental Coalition

  • Clean Air Coalition of Western New York

  • Clean Production Action

  • Coalition to End Lead Poisoning

  • Communication Workers of America Local 1701

  • Community Action Organization – Center for Environmental Justice

  • Community Health & Environment Coalition of Long Island

  • Environmental Justice Action Group of Western New York

  • Faces of Astarte

  • Garrison Institute

  • Green Inside and Out Consulting

  • Greenpeace USA – New York Chapter

  • Healthy Schools Network

  • Institute for Health and the Environment at SUNY Albany

  • Learning Disabilities Association of New York State

  • Mira’s Movement

  • Moms Clean Air Force

  • Moms for a Non-Toxic New York

  • NARAL Pro Choice New York

  • Natural Resources Defense Council

  • New York City Environmental Justice Alliance

  • New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health

  • New York Public Interest Research Group

  • New York State Nurses Association

  • Northeast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health

  • Parents Against Lindane

  • Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes

  • Prevention is the Cure

  • Seventh Generation, Inc.

  • United Steelworkers, District 4

  • W. Haywood Burns Environmental Education Center

  • Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health

Individuals (affiliation as ID only):

  • Janet Gray, PhD, Vassar College (Emeritus)

  • Joseph Gardella, PhD, Chemistry Professor, SUNY Buffalo  

  • Katrina Korfmacher, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center

  • Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc., Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College