Safer States provides a space for organizations to come together to build a healthier and just future. Together, we address critical issues such as public health threats from toxic chemicals, plastics and climate change.
We believe in the power of collective action. Through our extensive network and capacity-building initiatives, we empower each other to amplify our collective impact.
Everyone has access to clean air and water while living, working, and playing in healthy environments.
Polluters are held accountable, toxic chemical exposures are prevented, and resources are allocated to clean up pollution.
Companies are incentivized to develop safe consumer products that do not contain toxic chemicals.
Chemicals, materials, products, and processes are safe for human health, the environment, and the climate.
“The health of our Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic depends on eliminating toxic chemicals and plastics that harm our health. We suffer disproportionate health disparities from our exposures, burdens that we did not create. The Arctic is a hemispheric sink for chemicals and plastics that are transported on atmospheric and oceanic currents from lower latitudes—we rely on policymakers to take urgent actions by passing effective legislation to prevent the production, use, and disposal of these dangerous substances that contaminate our traditional foods and bodies.”
Vi Waghiyi
Environmental Justice and Health Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Tribal Citizen of the Native Village of Savoonga, Yupik Mother and Grandmother, White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
