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- Advocacy for Zero Emission Vehicles - Proponents, consultants and constructors for a sustainable transportation future. Provides information, news and links.
www.pro-zev.com
- Air That We Breathe Group - Based in the Westbury area of Wiltshire, England. Campaign to raise awareness of the implications to the environment and health of harmful industrial process emissions in local factories and, in particular, at Blue Circle Cement's Westbury cement works. Also tyre / tire burning hot line.
www.airthatwebreathe.demon.co.uk
- Bangladesh Environmental Management Forum - An NGO working to mitigate, investigate, and solve problems of environmental pollution in Bangladesh.
bemfbd.tripod.com
- Basel Action Network - (BAN) works to prevent the globalization of the toxic chemical crisis. In particular, we seek to ensure that the Basel Convention and its ban on the export of hazardous wastes from OECD to non-OECD countries will not be weakened, but rather ratified and implemented at the earliest possible date.
www.ban.org
- Bhopal.Org - The Bhopal medical appeal for the victims of the 1984 Union Carbide accident in India.
www.bhopal.org
- Campaign Against the New Kiln - Local Community in North Wales, UK opposing the erection of a new cement kiln at Castle Cement's, Padesood, Flintshire works, to burn toxic waste.
www.cank.org.uk
- Carteret Citizens Allied to Protect the Environment - Organization opposed to building an LNG storage facility and an ethanol plant on a fragile sea shore in North Carolina.
www.c-cape.org
- Cigarette Litter - Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns. In addition to being unsightly, cigarette litter is damaging to the environment and also the cause of numerous fires every year, some of them fatal.
www.cigarettelitter.org
- Citizens Want Their Beaches Back - Site shows raw sewage running onto public beaches, private property signs warning the public to stay off public tax supported beaches, erosion of our beaches and the Attorney General John Cornyn's decision to ignore the Open Beaches Act.
ssopenbch.virtualave.net
- Clean Car Campaign - A national campaign which will promote the development and sale of advanced technology vehicles that meet a high clean car standard. Provides information on campaigns, news and resources.
www.cleancarcampaign.org
- Clean Ocean Action - Improving the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast, by identifying sources of pollution and using research, public education, and citizen action to convince public officials to take measures to clean and protect the ocean.
www.CleanOceanAction.org
- Coalition Helping Organize a Cleaner Environment (C.H.O.K.E.) - Non-profit group fighting the increased number of power plants in N.Y.C.
www.chokequeens.com
- Families Against Incinerator Risk - FAIR's mission is to ensure chemical weapons are destroyed using technologies that are safe for the public and the environment.
www.fair-utah.org
- GAIN - Campaign Against Surrey Incinerators - News, gallery and press releases for Guildford Anti-Incinerator Network (GAIN) campaigning against incinerators in Guildford, Surrey, UK.
www.no-incinerator.org.uk
- Hikers for Clean Air - Provides news and resources to promote public awareness and support in the nation's hiking community for legislation and regulatory initiatives to significantly reduce air pollutants.
www.hikersforcleanair.org
- Monofilament Recovery and Recycling program - Provides information on innovative recycling project in Brevard County, Florida dedicated to reducing the environmental damage caused by discarded monofilament fishing line.
www.countygovt.brevard.fl.us/mrrp
- Mothers Organized To Stop Environmental Sins - M.O.S.E.S is a citizen's group moved to action so that our families and especially our children can live a life free of fear and exposure to toxic substances.
www.mosesnonprofit.com/index.html
- National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides - Freedom from pesticides is everybody's right. Current information, news, action and links on pesticides. Beyond Pesticides newsletters.
www.ncamp.org
- Safe Food and Fertilizer - Dedicated to protecting children's health and the environment by preventing the disposal of hazardous and toxic wastes as fertilizer. Provides tutorial and links.
www.safefoodandfertilizer.com
- Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) - Works to document and expose the hazards of the high-tech industry and to promote environmental and economic sustainability and accountability in the electronics industry.
www.svtc.org
- T.E.A.C.H. (Toxic Environment Affects Children's Health) - Educate on toxic environmental hazards that may affect health in the Toms River, NJ area. Founded by the sixty families represented by Mr. Jan Schlictmann on which the 1998 movie A Civil Action was based.
www.tr-teach.org
- The Clean Air Conservancy - Non-profit environmental organization dedicated to acquiring pollution allowances through the market place to combat air pollution.
www.cleanairconservancy.org
- Washington Toxics Coalition - Dedicated to protecting public health and the environment by identifying and promoting alternatives to toxic chemicals. Provide reliable information about preventing pollution in homes, schools, workplaces, agriculture, and industry.
www.watoxics.org/index.html
- WaterKeepers - Mission is to stop pollution in San Francisco Bay, Delta and Northern California waterways through boat patrol and monitoring. Provides information on news, campaigns and resources.
www.waterkeepers.org
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