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Environmental Health Watch

Cleveland, Ohio

Cause Description:
Environmental Health Watch provides: information to help avoid both imprudent complacency and unnecessary alarm; assistance to take effective for protection from serious environmental health threats, and, advocacy to influence government and corporate policy to protect and sustain human health and the environment. Special projects include housing-related health hazards (e.g. lead poisoning, asthma), toxic air pollution and chemical accident prevention. EHW's work focuses on pollution in the home (e.g. lead, asthma triggers) and in the community (e.g. air pollution, chemical accidents). Over the last fourteen years, EHW has worked with a variety of other organizations to develop and evaluate pilot projects which were then incorporated in to the on-going work of the collaborating organization. These model programs have included lead abatement and training, household hazardous waste management, motor oil recycling, and chemical accident hazards analysis and prevention.

Type: Environmental
Listed on iGive since: October 1999
iGive members supporting: 9

Website: http://www.ehw.org

Raised through iGive: $13.06 across 2 checks, December 1999 to September 2000.

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