What kind of legacy do we want to leave our children? A legacy of fresh air, clean water and healthy bodies or a legacy of chemical-laden air, unsafe drinking water, and health threats from continuous exposure to toxic chemicals? It's our choice.

The Toxic-Free Legacy Coalition is a broad-based alliance of organizations across Washington state that rejects the trespass of persistent toxic chemicals in the environment and our bodies. These chemicals, such as PCBs, mercury, and dioxin, have been linked to neurological disorders, reproductive problems, developmental impacts, cancer, and genetic damage. Given the dangerous impacts of persistent toxic chemicals, we must act now to eliminate them. By joining together, we stive to ensure our children's fundamental right to be born without toxics in their bodies and to grow up in a healthy environment.

Our Vision is to leave our children a legacy of fresh air, clean water, thriving wildlife, and healthy bodies - a Toxic-Free Legacy.

Our Platform:

• Phase out existing sources of persistent toxic pollution;
• Clean up historical sources of persistent toxic pollution;
• Prevent new sources from releasing more persistent toxic chemicals into the environment; and
• Promote alternatives to persistent toxic chemicals.

Our Members:
The Toxic-Free Legacy Coalition is a diverse state-wide coalition of more than 50 organizations. Our member organizations include environmental advocates, health professional organizations, children's advocates, public health and health care advocates, environmental justice groups, green building experts, environmental health researchers, faith-based organizations, health-affected organizations, and others. We strive to reach our goal by integrating our efforts.

See the complete list of our member organizations.

The Coalition is led by a steering committee, currently comprised of representatives from six organizations:
Breast Cancer Fund, People For Puget Sound, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington State Nurses Association, Washington Toxics Coalition, and WashPIRG.

Our Activities:

• educating the public and policy-makers about problems with persistent toxic chemicals
• making policy changes at the state, regional, and local level,
• targeting specific sources of persistent toxic chemicals for clean up and phase out,
• convincing institutions to purchase alternative products that do not result in persistent toxic pollution,
• and building a broad-base coalition to support our efforts.

Learn more about our campaigns and activities.

Get Involved:
Please consider joining our coalition, participating in our events and activities, or supporting our member organizations. <How to Get Involved>

Contact Us
For more information, contact Margaret Shield, PhD, Coalition Coordinator at
mshield@toxicfreelegacy.org or 206-632-1545 ext. 123.

last updated April 9, 2007