It’s time to take action.

Defend Our Health believes all people have a right to safe food and drinking water, and products that are toxic-free and climate-friendly. We’re armed with a strategy to forge diverse coalitions, empower the grassroots, and drive marketplace change. We’re passing precedent-setting legislation at every level of government and impacting corporate chemical policy to protect public health. As a result, we’re preventing disability, disease, and early deaths while improving the health of our communities and the climate. Your voice matters. Take action today.

Current Campaigns

Tell Home Depot: Stop selling poison plastic

Building materials we use in our homes shouldn’t expose consumers, communities, or workers to carcinogens or other harmful chemicals.
 
That’s why we are calling on The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, to take action and phase out the use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic in its building materials and packaging. The Home Depot can leverage its leadership and influence to “help doers get more done,” with safer building products.

Tell HHS Secretary Kennedy: Reduce toxics and plastics in food packaging 

We’re urging Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy to rein in the out-of-control use of plastics and phthalates in food packaging from his position overseeing the Food and Drug Administration. It’s time to clean up food packaging.

Will you tell HHS Secretary Kennedy to use the power of his office to reduce the toxicity of food packaging allowed in the U.S.?

Tell Your Representative: Adopt the relief for farmers hit by PFAS Act

The Relief for Farmers Hit with PFAS Act would support impacted farmers through the short- and long- term economic impacts of discovering contamination including temporary income replacement for farmers thrown out of production, infrastructural investments to help farms pivot to safe production systems, medical monitoring for farmers, farm workers & family members who have been directly exposed to PFAS and options for relocation for severely impacted farms.

Will you tell the House Agriculture Committee to adopt the Relief for Farmers Hit by PFAS Act into the 2023 Farm Bill?