Clean New York
The partnership between WVE and Clean New York creates an opportunity to enhance important work at the intersection of the environmental health and justice movements in the eastern and western parts of the United States. As a project of WVE, Clean New York provides a strategic vehicle for cultivating new financial and programmatic opportunities for the organization's growth and development on a national level. At the same time, WVE enables Clean New York to pursue important state-based campaigns designed to empower women to advocate on their own behalf for improved public health policies.
Clean New York was founded in 2006 by Kathy Curtis, Policy Director, and Bobbi
Chase Wilding, Organizing Director, as an outgrowth of their shared thirty
years of environmental health advocacy experience. Current projects of Clean
New York include state policy work on the phase out of deca-BDE, a toxic flame
retardant linked to impaired brain development and found in American women's
breast milk at levels higher than anywhere else in the world. The group has also
prioritized common-sense solutions to the burgeoning electronic waste crisis,
requiring the use of non-toxic head lice treatments, promoting environmentally
preferable government procurement and the phase-out of leaded jewelry.
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