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GM Advances Equitable Climate Action through New Collaborative with National Wildlife Federation

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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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GM has donated $1 million to the Collaborative through its Climate Equity Fund, and it will codesign the initiative's framework and roadmap.

Key Points: 
  • GM has donated $1 million to the Collaborative through its Climate Equity Fund, and it will codesign the initiative's framework and roadmap.
  • The National Wildlife Federation is serving as the convener alongside an ecosystem of sustainability leaders in the nonprofit, government and private sectors.
  • In 2021, GM launched its Equitable Climate Action initiative and created its now $50 million Climate Equity Fund to provide philanthropic support to nonprofit organizations closing equity gaps related to climate change.
  • The National Wildlife Federation's mission is to unite all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Consumers for Dental Choice: Over 50 Groups ask White House to take action against amalgam use by federal agencies

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Thursday, September 23, 2021
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"One would suppose that our government agencies would be first in line to implement federal health policy -- but the reverse is true," said Charlie Brown of Consumers for Dental Choice. "Dug-in federal bureaucracies refuse to follow federal health policy!"

Key Points: 
  • A primitive, pre-Civil War pollutant, amalgam is 50% mercury.
  • "The whole life cycle of amalgam adds to cumulative and disproportionate impacts on communities of color," said Nsedu Obot Witherspoon of the Children's Environmental Health Network.
  • "Amalgam use by these government bureaucracies means that military bases, Tribal Lands, and federal prisons become increasingly polluted with toxic mercury," said Pam Miller of the Alaska Community Action on Toxics.
  • The 50+ organizations highly commend the FDA, which also issued Infographics, https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/dental-amalgam-fillings/dental-amalg...
    Tracy Gregoire, Learning Disabilities Association of America, 207-504-2556, [email protected]