What New England Residents Say About 
Toxics Action Center

"Toxics Action Center has been a tremendous help in our fight against a mega-landfill in our rural western Massachusetts town. They provided the information and support we needed to mold a group of outraged citizens into an effective political voice. They are there each time we need them, providing workshops, advice, and references to key resources, all with a deft touch. From the trenches I can attest that Toxics Action Center is highly effective."
      - George Clemmer, STOP, Hardwick , Massachusetts

"Toxics Action Center has been invaluable in getting us going and headed in the right direction. They are critical to our efforts and have provided sources and contacts that we had no idea even existed. The assistance they provide is irreplaceable."
       - Horace Duke, Jr., UNIForce, Williamstown, Vermont

"Through workshops on Campaign Planning, Message and Materials, Fundraising, Building Your Group, Media Events, Public Hearings, and Community Votes, Toxics Action Center not only gives the communities that they work with a fish, but also teaches them to fish."
      - June Chiaia-Logie, ConnFESS and Easton Healthy School Network, Connecticut

"Thank God for Toxics Action! They brought their community organizing expertise to our important cause. Under their tutelage we organized a successful kick-off meeting, attended by over 150 people. We educated, collected money and signed up volunteer after volunteer. Toxics Action Center was incredible - we learned how to organize, how to focus and how to successfully demand what we needed. Toxics Action was the most instrumental part of our group's success."
      - Debbie Mariano, Concerned Parents of Wampatuck, Scituate, Massachusetts

"Toxics Action Center is one of the standout organizations in New England, and their legacy over two decades of dedicated work has made our New England states a much safer place, and has helped build nationwide efforts to protect environmental health."
      - Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brown University and author of No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia and Community Action, a book about the leukemia cluster in Woburn, MA

"Toxics Action Center gave us the skills we desperately needed to stop the gravel pit industry that was threatening our water supplies."
       - Eric Herrle, Chair Citizens Committee for Responsible Government, Waterboro, Maine

"For 10 years they supported and guided us through a maze of government bureaucracy. Rocco's landfill would never have received Superfund status if it wasn't for the help of Toxics Action Center."
       - Judy Fittery, TOXIC (Townspeople Organized Against Illness and Contamination), Tewksbury, Massachusetts

"With Toxics Action Center's help, we were able to ensure that the Central School would be safe for our kids. Protecting children is what Toxics Action Center is all about."
       - Cheryl Walsh, Founder, Stoneham Parents for Healthy Schools, Stoneham, Massachusetts

"Toxics Action steered us in the right direction. They have been invaluable to us. Without Toxics Action, we would have been a group of frustrated neighbors not knowing which way to turn."
       - Nancy Morris, Founder, Citizens Against Toxic Sludge, Livermore Falls, Maine

"Toxics Action Center connected us with other Connecticut residents also fighting to clean up dirty power plants in their towns. This gave us the power to pressure our government officials to act."
       - Rebecca MacLachlan, Middletown, Connecticut