Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE) focuses on reducing and/or eliminating toxic threats to public health and cultivating a movement of women who are agents for social change. Some of our accomplishments include:

• Helped found and lead the national Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of organizations working to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems, and replace them with safer alternatives;
• Helped convince OPI Inc., the largest global manufacturer of nail products for salons, to eliminate serveral major chemicals of concern from their nail polish products;
• Co-founded the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance, a network of some 35 organizations, scientific researchers, advocates and government agencies working to protect and improve the health and welfare of women working in the nation's nail salons;
• Published two groundbreaking bilingual reports--Household Hazards (disclosing the links between chemicals in household cleaning products with the rising incidence of asthma and reproductive harm) and Glossed Over (highlighting the unique health hazards associated with exposure to toxic chemicals for women working in the nation's nail salons);
• Generated hundreds of national, multi-lingual media stories about women's environmental health and justice;
• Co-founded and played an active role in the national Coming Clean Collaboration, a national network of more than 60 organizations working to change the practices of the chemical industry;
• Participated in regional and national studies of women’s breastmilk to examine the presence of toxic flame retardants and PCBs;
• Formed a statewide mercury taskforce in Montana which aims to address pollution associated with mercury-containing products (i.e. thermometers, thermostats and other measuring devices) through legislative initiatives, collaboration with Montana businesses and consumer education;
• Conducted a hair test on 28 Montana legislators and the Governor to highlight the impacts of mercury pollution on public health and produced a report of the results entitled Bad Hair Day;
• Crafted and led the introduction of legislation in Montana, which passed the Senate and earned a hearing in the House of Federal Relations, Energy, and Telecommunications committee, to phase out the sale and regulate the disposal of consumer products containing mercury (i.e. thermostats, thermometers and other measuring devices);
• Organized state and national events and conferences focused on threats to women’s environmental health;
• Organized a successful grassroots campaign, with hundreds of women in Montana and Idaho, to convince Albertsons Inc., one of the nation's leading supermarket chains, to post visible warnings about mercury contamination in fish;
• Helped found and lead the Montana Women Vote Project (MWV) which registers and educates new voters during election years.
• Closed down or scaled back incinerators, labs and power plants, in conjunction with women at the grassroots level in Montana, Idaho and other states;
• Founded and developed a young women’s leadership program called Girls Using Their Strengths (GUTS!), now managed by the YWCA of Missoula, that enables hundreds of girls aged 11-17 to participate in a program designed to increase self esteem and develop a greater sense of personal purpose through environmental and social justice public activism;