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Campaign Milestones
(4/2007) CPOC Launches the Disney Go Green Campaign
(3/2007) US Green Building Council Points to CPOC’s Model School Siting Guidelines in New LEED for School Program
The first national green school building certification system, LEED for Schools, uses CPOC’s Model School Siting Guidelines, as a guide for their school siting criteria. These guidelines are more child-health protective than any school siting law in the country.
(12/2006) CPOC Launches the Florida Alliance for Healthy Indoor Environments
In 2006, CPOC and Florida-based leadership formed FAHIE as a powerful statewide alliance to promote healthy indoor environments to protect children’s health. Click here to learn about the work and join FAHIE.
(2006/2007) Florida State Environmental Health and Justice Organizing Conferencee
CPOC, BE SAFE and CHEJ have hosted annual statewide organizing trainings in Orlando, Florida, bringing together statewide grassroots leaders to share their struggles, experiences, and to hone organizing skills, building a strong base of environmental health activists in the state. Click here to get involved.
(2006) APHA adopts CPOC’s School Siting Guidelines as Remediation Standard in Disaster Resolution Release of Building Safe Schools Report
Read a copy of the resolution.
(9/2006 - Present) Green Flag/GreenFaith Pilot Project
This pilot project successfully worked with Islamic, Jewish and Catholic schools to switch to green cleaning products, integrated pest management, improve recycling and reduce consumption, and reduce energy use.
(2/6/06) EPA Bans Testing Pesticides On Pregnant Women And Children
CPOC mobilized over 50,000 people to send letters to the federal EPA, creating sufficient public pressure to force the creation of the first-ever federal rule on pesticide experiments that involve the use of human subjects. The rule categorically prohibits intentional dosing of pesticides on pregnant women and children.
(4/6/05) Facing Growing Opposition, EPA Cancels The Cheers Child Pesticide Study
On April 4, 2005, a grassroots movement led by CPOC, partner organizations in the field, and 80,000 individuals won a major victory when their actions forced EPA Acting Administrator Stephen Johnson to cancel the hotly controversial CHEERS pesticide study which would have experimented with 60 children under the age of two, from primarily low-income families.
(9/16/03) CHEJ and CPOC Launch The National Green Flag Program For Environmental Leadership
The Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign launched a national environmental program in schools across the nation. This innovative program tackles potential environmental health problems In schools.
(10/1/2002) CPOC Testifies Before Senate Committee
CHEJ Executive Director testified on behalf of the CPOC campaign before the U.S. Senate's Environmental and Public Works Committee at the Green Schools: Environmental Standards for Schools hearing. Gibbs’s testimony focused on the urgent need for school siting legislation to prevent the widespread practice of building schools on or near contaminated sites.
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