Connecticut Coalition for
Environmental Justice

CCEJ in 2010: A String of Successes

CCEJ realized important advances for the environmental health of all Connecticut's residents, including low-income people and people of color. Among our successes, CCEJ:

helped pass a state law creating a new Chemicals Innovations Institute. The Institute will help state businesses and manufacturers use safe, non-toxic chemicals in their products and services.

negotiated successfully to relocate Samson Industries of Bridgeport from Davenport Avenue. Blowing dust from Samson’s Davenport location had impaired health of children at a playground across the street.

educated over 600 Bridgeport residents on recycling in their city and its public health value using a Recycling Speakers Bureau of seven lay people

educated over 15 low-income, subsistence fishermen of the lower Quinnipiac River about safe fish consumption

signed up over 15 Hartford residents to participate in CT Clean Energy Options, a voluntary program where households buy clean energy through a surcharge to their monthly utility bill

convinced O&G Industries to cover its debris piles at its properties on Seaview Avenue, Bridgeport. O&G also agreed to plant trees to control blowing dust from the properties.

helped pass a state law banning cadmium from children’s toys. Cadmium is a possible factor behind reproductive disorders, kidney disease, and bone problems.

worked with various groups nationwide to successfully convince EPA and U.S. companies to phase out sale of brominated flame retardants in the United States. Commonly found in pillows and furniture, brominated flame retardants are suspected neurotoxins.