HealthLink

HealthLink is a grassroots citizen group dedicated to protecting public health by eliminating toxins and pollutants from our environment through research, education and community action.

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Salem Power Plant in the News...

HealthLink rally for a

COAL FREE/FOSSIL FUEL FREE FUTURE!

Safer Alternatives

to Toxins

Paving the way for toxic use reduction

Testimony on Hexavalent chromium and formaldehyde, Dec. 1, 2011

Swampscott and Marblehead Boards of Health seek stricter ban on endocrine disrupting BPA additive in children's products.

How to Protect Your Baby from BPA from Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health

What Kids and Other People Can Do To Help Create a Sustainable World!

On average we are subjected to over 125 untested chemicals each day in our personal care products. Are your personal care products safe? To learn more:

REPORT...

Unusual incidences you see, hear or smell at the Salem power plant 1-888-VIOLATE.

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MERCURY Matters Hubbard Brook Research Foundation

What's the state of the air YOU breathe? The American Lung Association

EPA Air Quality Index

The Coal Free Massachusetts Coalition seeks to:

Phase out all of Massachusetts' coal-fired power plants by 2020

Advance energy efficiency and clean renewable energy

Partner with and empower community leadership and vision for clean energy and clean-tech development

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Reuse studies for the Salem power plant site

Speaking Alternatives to Power

Marine Biotech Research and Industry Vision

Report: Jacobs Power Plant Study

Brattle Group study on plant redevelopment

HealthLink letter to the editor:

Fact is Salem, region don't need another power plant

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change explained in four minutes by Bill McKibben

Ross Gelbspan on global warming

Hot Topics

Salem Gas Plant Could Be Short Circuited by Agency's Decision

(March 18, 2013 - BBJ)

Groups announce opposition to current natural gas plant proposal in Salem

Flag Serious Community Impacts and Unanswered Questions

SAFE, HealthLink and Clean Water Action today announced opposition to the tentative proposal outlined by Footprint Power. The groups cautioned that the details of the proposal remain sketchy at this point, adding to the level of public concern. Serious questions regarding the health and safety of the area's residents remain..

COAL

The True Cost of Coal

Op-ed by Lynn Nadeau, HealthLink

Statement by Jairo Epaiyu at Dominion's shareholder meeting

Coal's Assault on Human Health

60 Minutes covers COAL ASH

CLEAN COAL is an oxymoron...Read more

What is mountain top removal?

Harvard School of Public Health Study

Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants Report by the American Lung Association

Harvard Study: $50 billion - the full cost of coal

What you see is what you breathe!

Click here for photos of coal pollution

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HealthLink started Renewable Energy Committees throughout Essex County. Selected municipalities have become 'green communities' and are currently receiving funding for renewable energy, efficiency and conservation projects.

MA Green Communities Act

Learn more about public outreach through bill boards and the unique Blue Line subway campaign for clean energy.

Video: Renewable energy posters installed on Blue Line. Click to view

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HealthLink & CLF settle law suit with power plant, bring funds to local environmental projects

Court settlement with Salem power plant ends city's coal era

The agreement resolving a 2010 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court includes a stipulation that future plant owners cannot burn coal after 2014, when Dominion has announced it will shut down the fossil fuel facility...