Chemicals Program
Sign the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Hazardous Chemicals
CIEL, working with the World Wildlife Fund and other environmental and health groups, helps develop a "U.S. Declaration of Independence from Hazardous Chemicals." The signed declaration will be presented to the European Commission as a statement of U.S. popular support for European efforts to adopt safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals.
Click here to sign the Declaration: www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/whatsnew/declaration.cfm
The signed declaration will be presented to the European Commission as a statement of U.S. popular support for safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals. Deadline: June 30, 2003.
For more information about the draft European legislation: http://www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/whatsnew/pr_35.htm, or contact Daryl Ditz.
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