Policy Action

ACTION

WATER

“The petrochemical industry and the pollution it creates disproportionately harms people of color and low-income communities. Every year, the United States alone burns or buries in landfill 32 million tons of plastic, impacting the health, wealth, and well-being of frontline and fence line communities.

In fact, the U.S. produces the most plastic waste per capita of any country, and exports much of this waste to the Global South. An astounding 91% of plastic is never recycled.
350 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally each year, and 15 million metric tons wind up as plastic waste in the world’s oceans.”

ACTION

FARMWORKERS

FARM
WORKERS

Nurses and others in the Western States (CA, OR, and WA) are working on standardizing a heat and smoke exposure occupational health policy.   We will keep you apprised when we need you to sign onto a letter or call your elected official.  In the meantime, you can read more about this issue in a series created by the Union of Concerned Scientists, Too Hot to Work.

ACTION

exposures

PESTICIDES:  Californians want the “right to know” when hazardous pesticides are being sprayed in their neighborhoods, including near their children’s schools. Sign a petition sponsored by our partners from Californians for Pesticide Reform that will go to the California Department of Pesticide Regulations demanding our right to know when dangerous pesticides are going to be sprayed in our neighborhoods.

ACTION

GREENING YOUR HOSPITAL

1. Call your environmental services or sustainability director and ask if your workplace has a GREEN TEAM and join it!    And join the monthly CNEHJ Greening Hospital Team meetings.  Find the next meeting on our calendar.




2. Sign the Healthy Foods in Health Care Pledge.