Clean+Healthy's mission is to build a just and healthy society in which toxic chemicals are unthinkable.
Our work changes laws, shifts markets, and empowers people to advance innovative solutions and create a sustainable economy. We envision a clean, safe, and healthy world where all people are free to grow and thrive.
OUR HISTORY
Founded in 2006, we are a New York State-based advocacy group that started as a partnership of two seasoned environmental health advocates. Kathy Curtis and Bobbi Wilding saw the urgent need to "turn off the tap" on toxic chemicals by cleaning up toxic waste sites, as well as to prevent the creation of any further sites. Their belief that people should not be poisoned in their jobs, homes, schools, and environments became the cornerstone of Clean+Healthy.
In 2010, the organization was formalized with the creation of Clean and Healthy New York, Inc. with its own independent tax-exempt status. Clean+Healthy has the singular objective of building a just society in which toxic chemicals are unthinkable. Clean+Healthy is also a strategic partner in multiple state and national coalitions, and provides key leadership for the JustGreen Partnership, Lead-Free Kids NY, Getting Ready for Baby, and Coming Clean.
OUR IMPACT
OUR VALUES
COLLABORATION
Our motto is: together we win. Core to our strategy and mission is working with a broad and diverse array of people, communities, organizations, and sustainable businesses, sharing information and resources to empower our common efforts to eliminate toxic chemicals from all aspects of our lives. See some of the organizations that we collaborate with here.
AUTHENTICITY
We follow scientific evidence and do not spin or slant it. We are truthful and transparent with the public and everyone with whom we work and expect the same of others. We put the public interest above all other concerns. Read Clean+Healthy’s key reports here.
FORESIGHT
We take the long view, looking ahead to see how decisions in regulation, manufacturing, and the marketplace, could have future impacts. We are thoughtful about unintended consequences as well as the full life cycle of materials, products, and policies. We strive to turn off the tap on toxic chemicals before they harm people and communities. Read our Roadmap here.
JUSTICE
We are committed to an equitable, just, and inclusive society. We are intentionally anti-racist and oppose gender oppression. In all of our decisions, we consistently ask ourselves: Who is most impacted? Who is left out? Who is empowered? Whose voices are not yet being heard? We center justice in our decision-making and aim to dismantle structures of inequality and discrimination.
FEARLESSNESS
To make toxic chemicals and products unthinkable, we speak truth to power, reimagine what’s possible, push for bold change, and are innovative, tenacious, and persistent.