Women for a Clean and Healthy America Tour

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It’s about our health and the health of our children. For Bush and his friends, it’s about polluters’ pocketbooks. The Women for a Clean and Healthy America Tour has launched! After a very successful kick-off in Los Angeles, our speakers now head to our four swing states to reach our target audience: women voters. The tour schedule is as follows:

  • Tuesday, September 28: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Wednesday, September 29: Concord, New Hampshire
  • Monday, October 4: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Thursday, October 14: Tampa, Florida

Our Mission

Environment2004 is a membership organization dedicated to assuring the defeat of President George W. Bush and his allies by highlighting the environmental stakes in the next election. The Environment2004 "Women for a Clean and Healthy America Tour" will inform persuadable women voters in swing states about the dangers to their health and the health of their children due to the Bush Administration’s efforts to undermine our environmental and public health protections.

Why Focus on Women and the Environment?

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one in every six women of childbearing age has elevated levels of mercury in her system, creating the risk of severe neurological and developmental problems in her future children. The Bush administration has delayed court-ordered regulation of this poison, just one of the more egregious examples of this administration’s efforts to undermine our environmental and public health protections.

The Tour

On September 20, Environment2004 will launch the Women for a Clean and Healthy America tour at a gala event in Los Angeles. The event will serve the dual purpose of attracting press attention to these issues and raising funds for the tour. Please join us for the launch! After the Launch in LA, the tour will head to our four swing states -- Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Florida -- sending prominent women from the entertainment, public health, political, and environmental communities to electoral battleground states. Women who have joined us to date include: actresses Ashley Judd, Elisabeth Shue, and Melissa Fitzgerald, Carol Browner (Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, 1993-2001), Governor Jennifer Granholm and former Governor Ann Richards, Keely Shaye Smith (activist and wife of Pierce Brosnan), Martha Marks (President, Republicans for Environmental Protection), and Dr. Lynn Goldman (Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), among others. Our message will target female swing voters, spreading the word about the Bush administration's record of disregard for safeguarding women's and children's health and environment.