Environmental Justice & Human Health

WPSR’s Environment, Justice, & Human Health Committee strives to create a healthy world for all by eliminating toxic chemicals and addressing other threats to human and environmental health. We especially focus on safeguarding children’s health, learning potential, and futures. By lending your voices and participation as health professionals, our combined efforts can help protect families, neighbors and communities from harmful environmental exposures, and move towards a healthy and sustainable Washington.

We currently concentrate our efforts on the following issues:

• Eliminating the hormone-disrupting chemical Bisphenol-A from baby bottles, sports bottles, and other key childrens products.
• Educating the health care community, public, and policy makers on the toxic pollutants released by coal plants, and phasing out coal production in Washington State.
• Eliminating Toxic Flame Retardants, or Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)
• Phasing out PVC Medical Devices Containing DEHP
• Working to Establish Safer Chemicals Policies and Phasing Out Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
• Through In Harm’s Way programs, providing trainings for health professionals regarding toxic threats to child development
• Collaborating on Healthy Homes and Indoor Air

News Flash: Visit our Action Alerts section for our health professionals' sign on letter, and for the findings of the new toy safety database: www.HealthyToys.org.

About the EJHH Committee:

The EJHH Committee meets regularly (usually once a month) in the evenings. The EJHH is co-chaired by Richard Grady, MD and Steven Gilbert, PhD, DABT. It is staffed by WPSR’s Executive Director and Environment, Justice & Human Health Program Coordinator, Cherie Eichholz. We hope you will join us in our efforts! Please contact Cherie at cherie@wpsr.org for more information, next meeting time, or to be added to the EJHH List serve.

WPSR tackles the pressing issue of climate change and its effects on health and the environment through its Energy & Peace Committee.

WPSR works on these issues in collaboration with, and as a steering committee member of, The Toxic-Free Legacy Coalition (www.toxicfreelegacy.org) (TFL).

WPSR also coordinates with Health Care Without Harm (HCHW) www.noharm.org in work encouraging health care’s use of products and processes that are preferable for human health and the environment.

For questions or comments about WPSR’s Environment, Justice, & Human Health Committee, please email cherie@wpsr.org. Thank you!