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NGO Profile: Coming Clean Collaborative
Since 2001, Coming Clean has been one of the most important collectives in defining the modern day environmental health movement. With a 10-year focus on aligning our 200+ member groups behind a series of integrated strategies to win petrochemical industry reform, we were thrilled to announce in 2012 our new expansion into the inextricably linked field of Energy and Chemicals Reform. This expansion will ensure we are on a better track to achieving our significant public health protection goals. While many groups work intimately together within Coming Clean, we are different from most networks because we don’t define ourselves through surgical goals like winning federal chemicals policy reform or a particular chemical phase out. Rather we support these and many other strategies to win comprehensive reform goals that build momentum for a systemic shift toward a safe chemicals and energy economy. Our complimentary approaches, like biomonitoring science and product testing, corporate investigation and targeting activity, grassroots engagement and community-participatory research and organizing, policy work, and market campaigning, play off each other and together build momentum for change. Coming Clean provides the leadership and structure for hundreds of organizations to deliberate on, plan and execute strategies within a open-source collaborative campaigning model that will continue to define the direction of the environmental health movement for years to come.
Our mission is to align many diverse organizations, currently more than 200 in the US, behind integrated strategies that will reform the chemical and fossil fuels industry so that it is no longer a source of harm to our health and the environment. Through our actions we aim to bring about systemic change that allows a safe chemical and energy economy to flourish.
Since 2001, Coming Clean has been one of the most important collectives in defining the modern day environmental health movement. With a 10-year focus on aligning our 200+ member groups behind a series of integrated strategies to win petrochemical industry reform, we were thrilled to announce in 2012 our new expansion into the inextricably linked field of Energy and Chemicals Reform. This expansion will ensure we are on a better track to achieving our significant goals.
Our work today is all the more important than it was when we launched the collaborative alongside the nationally televised Bill Moyers documentary “Trade Secrets,” on the dangerous, underhanded behavior of the global petrochemical industry. Since then we have worked with hundreds of organizations, organizers, scientists, academics, business, labor and investment leaders to build one of the broadest and most effective campaigning portfolios in the country. Such a diverse team, focused on winning broad goals through diverse but coordinated tactics, is even more essential now, as big business industries seek more and more control over our democratic process.
Coming Clean is a proven, trusted, and innovative organizing vehicle for the environmental health movement. Our structure is stable enough to keeps groups aligned around multi-year projects and strategies, but nimble enough to evolve to take advantage of changing situations and new opportunities. Through Coming Clean we aligned the environmental health and justice movements around a framework for national policy reform that birthed the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families campaign, which is now the organizing vehicle for federal chemicals policy reform. We coordinated activities and strategies that made the connections between market and policy organizing work that now represents the dual-focus approach that has become a standard of environmental health campaigning. We coordinated a messaging frame around health impacts that has expanded our ranks to include nurses, doctors and community health messengers, as well as faith groups, scientists, business leaders and investors networks who regularly partner now with activists. We have released numerous high profile reports to the media about chemicals in our homes, our consumer goods, and our bodies, helping galvanize a movement for safer products, practices, and policies. We have incubated networks and campaigns that are now thriving, including SAFER States and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The outcomes of these actions have specific benefits for the public: lawmakers willing to prioritize public health protection; reductions in the production, use and public exposure to dangerous chemicals; more complete reporting about threats from chemical and refinery accidents and operations; stronger coverage of toxics issues by the media; more consumer information about toxics and better communication to businesses about the public’s desire for non-toxic products and services; and a stronger, more nimble and impactful environmental health and justice movement built on the foundation of grassroots engagement and mobilization.
While many groups work intimately together within Coming Clean, we are different from most networks because we don’t define ourselves through surgical goals like winning federal chemicals policy reform or a particular chemical phase out. Rather we support these and many other strategies to win comprehensive reform goals that build momentum for a systemic shift toward a safe chemicals and energy economy. Our complimentary approaches, like biomonitoring science and product testing, corporate investigation and targeting activity, grassroots engagement and community-participatory research and organizing, policy work, and market campaigning, play off each other and together build momentum for change. Coming Clean provides the leadership and structure for hundreds of organizations to deliberate on, plan and execute strategies within a open-source collaborative campaigning model that will continue to define the direction of the environmental health movement for years to come.
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Coming Clean Collaborative
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Since 2001, Coming Clean has been one of the most important collectives in defining the modern day environmental health movement. With a 10-year focus on aligning our 200+ member groups behind a series of integrated strategies to win petrochemical industry reform, we were thrilled to announce in 2012 our new expansion into the inextricably linked field of Energy and Chemicals Reform. This expansion will ensure we are on a better track to achieving our significant public health protection goals. While many groups work intimately together within Coming Clean, we are different from most networks because we don’t define ourselves through surgical goals like winning federal chemicals policy reform or a particular chemical phase out. Rather we support these and many other strategies to win comprehensive reform goals that build momentum for a systemic shift toward a safe chemicals and energy economy. Our complimentary approaches, like biomonitoring science and product testing, corporate investigation and targeting activity, grassroots engagement and community-participatory research and organizing, policy work, and market campaigning, play off each other and together build momentum for change. Coming Clean provides the leadership and structure for hundreds of organizations to deliberate on, plan and execute strategies within a open-source collaborative campaigning model that will continue to define the direction of the environmental health movement for years to come.
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- Contact Name
- Judy Robinson
- Contact Email
- jrobinson@igc.org
- Contact Phone
- 802-251-0203
- Geographic Areas
- National & International, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
- Focus area(s)
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- Children's Health and Environment
- Climate Change / Energy
- Communities & Constituencies-focused Work
- Environment
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Green Chemistry / Safer Alternatives
- Life-cycle / Waste / Recycling
- Markets-focused Work
- Policy-focused Work
- Public Health
- Science-focused Work
- Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems
- Sustainability
- Toxics
- Women’s Health and Environment
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