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Center for Health, Environment and Justice

Lois Marie Gibbs
Executive Director
PO Box 6806
Falls Church, VA 22040

 		Phone: (703) 237-2249
Fax: (703) 237-8389
email: chej@chej.org  
URL: http://www.chej.org/ 
  
 

Mission Statement

 
The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (formerly Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste) trains and assists local people to fight for justice, become empowered to protect their communities from environmental threats and build strong locally controlled organizations. CHEJ connects these strong local groups with each other to build a movement from the bottom up.

  • Geographic focus: national
  • Membership: 3,400 organizations and individuals
  • Other organizational activities (not directed specifically toward children): advocacy, assistance, education, grantmaking, organizing, public/voter education, regulation, research, training

    • Children's Environmental Health Activities

    		 
    CHEJ educates the public about environmental toxins and their influence on children's health. CHEJ helps concerned parents in contaminated communities to identify and understand environmental health threats to their children. CHEJ helps communities take steps to eliminate specific chemical exposures by providing customized community organizing assistance and by referring them to skilled grassroots leaders in other communities who have won similar fights.
     
    Please note: the information presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by Center for Health, Environment and Justice and was not verified independently by the Children's Environmental Health Network.
    Publication date: 6/2/99
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