ECO-Action

Our work is based on the intersection of three things --threats to human health, environmental degradation and social injustice. ECO-Action's mission is to help communities organize to confront environmental health threats. ECO-Action serves the general population, but we focus our assistance with communities who are in need of it the most –most often, rural residents, people with limited formal education, people with few resources, women, and people of color.

At ECO-Action, we believe that communities should have the right to clean air, land and water and have a right to participate in the decisions that affect their own lives. Incredibly, many communities do not have that right today. The people most affected by toxic chemical exposure are those who live in low-income communities and communities of color. We believe that people who organize and work collectively to make change, to share resources, and to solve problems will make a difference in their community's health, environment and prosperity.