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Clean Production Action is a non-profit environmental organization that designs and delivers strategic solutions for green chemicals, sustainable materials, and environmentally preferable products. Originally founded as a project under the Tides Center in 2001, Clean Production Action incorporated as a non-profit in 2011 and received tax exempt status from the IRS in 2014. Clean Production Action is best known for its tools, GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals and the Chemical Footprint Project, as well as its collaborations, BizNGO and the Investor Environmental Health Network.

History – Key Dates
Leaders in the cleaner production and pollution prevention movements founded Clean Production Action as a project under the Tides Center in 2001. Dr. Kenneth Geiser and Dr. Joel Tickner of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Beverley Thorpe, formerly of Greenpeace, were the founders of Clean Production Action in the United States.
 * 2001- Clean Production Action founded as a project under the Tides Center in the United States with Alexandra McPherson as the first Executive Director
 * 2006- The BizNGO Working Group for Safer Chemicals and Sustainable Materials created at a meeting of business and non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders in Boston, Massachusetts
 * 2007- GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals launched with the publication of Clean Production Action’s report by Dr. Mark S. Rossi and Dr. Lauren Heine, GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals: Evaluating Flame Retardants for TV Enclosures
 * 2014- Chemical Footprint Project launched at the 9th Annual Meeting of BizNGO in San Francisco, California
 * 2018- The Investor Environmental Health Network, founded in 2004 by Dr. Richard A. Liroff and Sanford Lewis, Esq., joined the Clean Production Action family of programs

GreenScreen
The GreenScreen Program is comprised of three different tools: GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals, GreenScreen List Translator™, and GreenScreen Certified™. GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals is the foundational tool. It is a globally recognized chemical hazard assessment tool that benchmarks chemicals into one of four categories, ranging from Benchmark 1 “red - AVOID” to Benchmark 4 “green – PREFER”. GreenScreen List Translator is a screening tool that readily identifies thousands of chemicals of high concern to human health and the environment. GreenScreen Certified certifies products that avoid chemicals of high concern and/or contain safer chemical ingredients.

Key Publications


 * 2007- Greenscreen® for Safer Chemicals: Evaluating Flame Retardants for TV Enclosures Version 1.0
 * 2014- The Plastics Scorecard
 * 2015- Alternatives to Methylene Chloride in Paint and Varnish Strippers Report
 * 2015- How to Use GreenScreen® for LEED V4
 * 2017- GreenScreen Certified™ Standard for Textile Chemicals
 * 2018- Greenscreen® for Safer Chemicals Hazard Assessment Guidance Version 1.4
 * 2018- GreenScreen Certified™ Standard for Building Products

Key Dates


 * 2009 – Hewlett-Packard is the first corporation to adopt GreenScreen to identify safer alternatives
 * 2010- Maine writes GreenScreen into Regulation of Chemical Use in Children’s Products section of state law as a tool to evaluate human health risks that certain chemicals pose
 * 2013- U.S. Green Building Council integrates toxicity of chemicals into material health assessments and adopts GreenScreen for their evaluation of hazardous chemicals for LEED certifications
 * 2015- TCO Certified integrates GreenScreen™ for Safer Chemicals into its sustainability certification for information technology (IT) products; to specify safer alternatives to halogenated flame retardants
 * 2017- GreenScreen Certified™ Launched
 * 2017- Klean Kanteen uses GreenScreen as a tool to safely develop and manufacture Klean Coat™ technology

BizNGO
BizNGO is a unique collaboration of business and environmental leaders working together to advance safer chemicals and sustainable materials. From an initial meeting of 30 stakeholders in Boston in 2006, BizNGO has grown to an expansive network with thousands of leaders from businesses, health care systems, governments, universities, and NGOs that convene annually. In 2018, BizNGO held its 12th annual meeting in Berkeley, California. Key Publications


 * 2006- Healthy Business Strategies for Transforming the Toxic Chemical Economy
 * 2012- The Guide to Safer Chemicals
 * 2013- Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol
 * 2013- Principles for Sustainable Plastics
 * 2013- Commons Principles for Alternatives Assessment
 * 2013- Principles for Safer Chemicals
 * 2013- BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol
 * 2016- Chemical Footprint Project 2016 Annual Report
 * 2017- Chemical Footprint of Products Commonly Used in Pediatrics Departments
 * 2017- Chemical Footprint Project 2017 Annual Report
 * 2017- Chemical Footprint Project Survey: 2017 Guidance Document
 * 2018- Chemical Footprint Project 2018 Annual Report
 * 2018- Chemical Footprint Project Survey: 2018 Guidance Document

Key Dates


 * 2008- BizNGO Principles for Safer Chemicals released

Chemical Footprint Project
Launched in 2014 with support from The John Merck Fund, the Chemical Footprint Project is an initiative to elevate “chemical footprinting” to the equivalent of carbon and water footprinting. Signatories to the Chemical Footprint Project include investors with $2.8 trillion in assets under management and purchasers with over $700 billion in procurement power. Gojo Industries and Walmart were the first corporations to commit to quantitative reductions in their chemical footprint. -

Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN)
The Investor Environmental Health Network is a membership-based, investor collaborative focusing on the use of safer chemicals to enhance shareholder value, public health, and the environment. IEHN’s high impact coordination, collaboration, and facilitation across investors has secured leadership positions on chemicals management from publicly traded companies that represent every facet of our economy. IEHN grows shareholder value by integrating green chemistry solutions into corporations, thereby reducing regulatory and reputation risks and increasing long-term value through products, services, and supply chains that are healthier for people and the planet. IEHN’s work to establish the Chemical Footprint Project as the gold standard is parallel to the investment community’s leadership to reduce carbon risk in the marketplace. Founded in 2004 by Dr. Richard Liroff and Sanford Lewis, Clean Production Action acquired IEHN in 2018 upon Dr. Liroff’s retirement.

Publications

 * 1.	Rossi, Mark S., Cheri Peele, and Sally Edwards. "Measuring Progress to SDGs with a Chemicals Management Survey." GreenBiz. September 19, 2018.
 * 2.	Peele, Cheri, MCP, Mark S. Rossi, PhD., and Sally Edwards, Sc.D. “Chemical Footprint Project 2018 Annual Report.” Clean Production Action, September 14, 2018.
 * 3.	Ewell, James, Mark S. Rossi, PhD., Ann Blake, and Shari Franjevic. “The Road to Eliminating Fluorinated Chemicals in Food Packaging.” GreenBiz, September 6, 2018.
 * 4.	“A Guide to Purchasing PFAS-Free Food Service Ware.” Clean Production Action, July 7, 2018.
 * 5.	“Hazards of PFAS fact sheet.” Clean Production Action, July 7, 2018.
 * 6.	“GreenScreen® Overview.” Clean Production Action, July 17, 2018.
 * 7.	“Alternatives to PFAS-Coated Food Packaging.” Clean Production Action, January 24, 2018
 * 8.	“Naturepedic: Taking a Precautionary Approach to Chemicals in Products.” Clean Production Action, December 13, 2017.
 * 9.	 Rossi, Mark S., PhD., and Wanda Ratliff, MS. “Chemical Footprint of Products Commonly Used in Pediatrics Departments.” Clean Production Action, December 12, 2017.
 * 10.	Rossi, Mark S., PhD. “Diagnosing Chemical Footprints in Pediatric Health Care.” GreenBiz, December 5, 2017.
 * 11.	“TV Reality: Toxic Flame Retardants in TVs.” Clean Production Action, September 19, 2017.
 * 12.	Rossi, Mark S., PhD., Cheri Peele, MCP, Sally Edwards, and Tim Greiner. “Chemical footprinting strides to become mainstream with Walmart.” GreenBiz, August 1, 2017.
 * 13.	Edwards, Greiner, Cheri Peele, MCP, and Mark S. Rossi, PhD. “Chemical Footprint Project 2017 Annual Report.” Clean Production Action, August 1, 2017.
 * 14.	“The Case for Chemical Transparency.” Clean Production Action, February 22, 2017.
 * 15.	Eriksen, Prindiville and Beverly Thorpe. “The Plastics BAN List.” The 5 Gyres Institute, Clean Production Action, Surfrider Foundation, and UPSTREAM. November 3, 2016.
 * 16.	Rossi, Mark S., PhD., Sally Edwards, Tim Greiner, and Cheri Peele, MCP. “Chemical Footprinting Has Arrived at Levi's, Seagate, J&J.” GreenBiz, May 19, 2016.
 * 17.	Edwards, Greiner, Cheri Peele, MCP, Mark S. Rossi, PhD. “Chemical Footprint Project 2016 Annual Report.” Clean Production Action, March 19, 2016.
 * 18.	 “BPA Buyer Beware Report.” Clean Production Action; Breast Cancer Fund; Ecology Center; Campaign for Healthier Solutions; Mind the Store Campaign, March 30, 2016.
 * 19.	“BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference 2015 Selected Speaker Interviews.” BizNGO, December 15, 2015.
 * 20.	Rossi, Mark S., PhD. “The $1.1 trillion question: What’s your chemical footprint?.” GreenBiz, June 19, 2015.
 * 21.	Konkel, Lindsey. “Chemical Footprinting: Identifying Hidden Liabilities in Manufacturing Consumer Products.” Environmental Health Perspective, May 2015.
 * 22.   Blake, Ann, and Mark S. Rossi. "5 steps to reduce the chemical footprint of plastic products." GreenBiz, July 1, 2014.
 * 23.   Rossi, Mark S., PhD. "Why every company has a chemical footprint." GreenBiz, April 19, 2013.