What is our Purpose?

To cleanup, prevent, reduce, and eliminate toxic exposures to ensure environmental, social, and economic sustainability for effected communities;

To ensure toxic site cleanups that are protective of human health, environmental and cultural resources, and traditional practices and lifestyles;

To ensure toxic site cleanups that benefit and are accepted by impacted communities and the public;

To ensure and support the scientific and technical integrity of the toxic site studies, decisions and cleanups;

To ensure that toxic site cleanups meet the highest environmental and human health standards;

To promote full participation in all levels of decision-making, and improve access to information for impacted communities and the public in all toxic cleanup actions;

To identify and link communities working for toxic site cleanups, in order to achieve national parity, knowledge-sharing and support for each others cleanup efforts;

To identify, leverage, and share information and resources to support individual groups' efforts to clean up toxic sites;

To increase oversight, involvement, and leadership among affected people in order to serve the public interest and environmental health and justice;

To empower marginalized communities and populations to achieve cleanup goals.