• BE SAFE
• Child Proofing Our Communities
• Green Flag Schools
• PVC: The Poision Plastic
• Statewide Pilot Programs
• Florida
• Maryland
• Ohio
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• Recent Local Action

Key Dioxin Resources

Dioxin Reports and Fact-Sheets:

• What Is Dioxin? CHEJ Factsheet
• The History of Dangerous Delays on a Dioxin Protective Policy
• CHEJ Dioxin Brochure
• CHEJ Analysis of Background Levels of Dioxin in Soil
• Behind Closed Doors
• The American People’s Dioxin Report:
• Executive Summary
• Report
• Technical Support Document
• Dioxin ad - Guess What You Had For Breakfast This Morning
• Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy
• Standing Our Ground

Key Letters to EPA from CHEJ and Allies:

• 3/30/10 – Environmental Health & Justice Groups Ask EPA to Base Dioxin Cleanup Levels on Cancer Risk
• 3/30/10 – Unions Ask EPA to Base Dioxin Cleanup Levels on Cancer Risk
• 3/30/10 – CHEJ Comments on EPA's Proposed PRGs for Dioxin in Soil
• Dioxin Timeline
• Background Levels of Dioxin in Soil
• 1/19.20 – CHEJ’s initial comments to EPA on soil cleanup guidelines
• 11/19/09 – CHEJ letter to EPA commenting on plan for developing Dioxin preliminary remediation goals
• 5/8/2009 – American Nurses Association letter to EPA and President Obama
• 05/06/2009 – Healthcare providers and scientists ask EPA to release Dioxin Health Assessment
• 04/28/2009 – Dioxin-impacted communities ask EPA to release Dioxin Health Assessment
• Quotes from Dioxin-Impacted Communities
• 2/10/2009 – Letter to EPA Admin. Lisa Jackson from scores of environmental health groups  
• 1/16/2009 – Over 100 environmental groups ask Obama to release Dioxin Health Assessment
• 2002 Letter to EPA from Nancy Pelosi and over 60 members of Congress

CHEJ Press Releases:

• 3/31/2010 – Scientists, Advocates to EPA: “Protect Families from Cancer-Causing Dioxin"
• 1/2/2010 – Environmental Groups Respond to New EPA Dioxin Standards
• 10/15/2009 – Group Praises EPA for Developing Dioxin Cleanup Goals – Expresses Concern About Delays
• 5/27/2009 – EPA Pushes Forward With Misguided Bush‐Era Policies on Toxic Dioxin
• 1/16/2009 – Environmental Groups to Obama: Release Dioxin Report After Twenty Years of Delays
• 7/10/2006 – National Academies New Study Concludes Dioxin is Toxic  

EPA Press Releases:

• 1/15/2010 – EPA and Michigan launch comprehensive Superfund evaluation of area dioxin contamination
• 12/31/2009 – EPA Seeks Public Input on Interim Guidance for Dioxins in Soil Cleanup Goals 
• 11/10/2009 –EPA Study Reveals Widespread Contamination of Fish in U.S. Lakes and Reservoirs 
• 10/15/2009 – EPA Plans to Develop Interim Preliminary Remediation Goals for Dioxin in Soil
• 9/30/2009 – EPA reviews Univ. of Michigan dioxin study; finds limited application to Tittabawassee River and Saginaw River and Bay
• 5/26/2009 – EPA Administrator Pledges Strong Federal Cleanup Presence at Dow Dioxin Site in Michigan and Accelerated Assessment of Dioxins’ Human Health Impacts 

Key Governmental Resources:

• EPA’s Dioxin Reassessment
• EPA’s Dioxin website
• EPA’s Draft Recommended Interim Preliminary Remediation Goals for Dioxin in Soil
• EPA’s Science Plan for Activities Related to Dioxins in the Environment (May 2009)
• EPA’s Review of State Soil Cleanup Levels for Dioxin
  (December 2009) 
• 2006 National Academies Repor