About Us
Our Mission:
To facilitate projects that seek to empower citizens and educate decision makers on issues that:
Executive Director
Paul Connett, PhD
Paul is a full tenured chemistry professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he has taught for 22 years. For the past 20 years he has given over 2000 pro-bono public presentations on waste management in 49 states in the US, 7 provinces in Canada and 46 other countries; co-authored 6 peer reviewed and published papers on dioxin; co-edited the newsletter Waste Not; provided expert testimony in court cases; critiqued numerous health risk assessments and co-produced over 50 videos on waste issues, including a 10-part series on dioxin. For the past 9 years he has researched the literature on fluoride’s toxicity and the fluoridation debate; interviewed many leading researchers and critics of fluoridation on video; given many presentations in several countries (to both community groups and public bodies, including the National Research Council and the US EPA); challenged leading proponents to debate the issue publicly (they nearly always decline); co-founded the Fluoride Action Network and distributed over 1000 bulletins on the effort to halt fluoridation worldwide. (See full Curriculum Vitae)
Secretary
Ellen Connett
Board of Directors
Roger Bailey
Katie Lajoie
Henry Lickers
Bill Osmunson
Charlie Spencer
Terri Swearingen