Letters & Sign-Ons
Letters
2024
- May 2024: To Senate on FDA FY 25 Appropriations | PDF
- April 2024: To congressional appropriators regarding CDC NCEH FY 2025 funding | PDF
- April 2024: To congressional appropriators regarding ATSDR FY 2025 funding | PDF
- February 2024: To congressional appropriators regarding FDA’s Human Foods FY 2024 funding | PDF
2023
- September 2023: To Congress regarding the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act | PDF
- June 2023: Response to request from FDA for Good Manufacturing Practices on tattooing inks and pigments | PDF
- May 2023: Urging Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds to veto Bill 315, that allows the sale of raw milk | PDF
- April 2023: Response to information request from Congresswoman Miller-Meeks | PDF
- February 2023: Environmental health should be included in the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program with $100 million allocated from the President's 2024 budget request | PDF
- January 2023: In support of the recommendations of the Reagan-Udall Foundation to improve our nation’s food safety system, identifying three recommendations | PDF
2022
- November 2022: Support for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health to $311.85 million | PDF
- November 2022: Support for at least $400 million for the Housing and Urban Development's Office of Lead Hazard Control & Health Housing | PDF
- February 2022: Incorporating Environmental Health within the PREVENT Pandemics Act | PDF
2021
- June 2021: Inclusion of environmental health in the American Rescue Plan Letter to the White House | PDF
- May 2021: Support Environmental Health Workforce Act HR 2611 | Letter
Sign-Ons
"Sign-on" is a term used to characterize certain policy positions. Often one or more organizations, like ours, will seek to develop a policy position or position on a particular piece of legislation. To increase the impact and effectiveness of that position, once developed, it is circulated among other organizations and groups having a similar interest in that given policy area.
A consensus position is developed among these various groups, allowing them to sign-on to a policy or legislative position. That letter or policy statement is then sent to Congress and it becomes a more effective way to communicate a position because of the combined effect of all groups that join in that stand. We use this mechanism as means of gaining greater attention for a policy or legislative position. We have joined in communicating the following positions.:
2024
- September 2024: Letter opposing congressional cut to CDC in the Labor-HHS FY2025 Appropriation | PDF
- September 2024: Supporting the Federal and State Food Safety Information Sharing Act of 2024 | PDF
- August 2024: Full authorization of $100 million for Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program | PDF
- July 2024: Changes Congress is proposing regarding public health research at the NIH | PDF
- June 2024: Letter to Appropriators to Fully Fund Non-Defense Discretionary (NDD) Programs | PDF
- June 2024: Letter to Appropriators to Fund NIOSH FY25 | PDF
- May 2024: EPA Clean Air Funding request for FY 2025 | PDF
- May 2024: ICC Building Energy Codes Adoption | PDF
- May 2024: Letter to House on FDA Line Item Appropriation | PDF
- May 2024: Letter to Senate on FDA Line Item Appropriation | PDF
- May 2024: NIOSH Outdoor Workers Exposed to Wildfire Smoke | PDF
- May 2024: Consumer and Industry Groups Ask for Food Safety Line Item | AFDO
- April 2024: FY25 EPA Funding | PDF
- April 2024: CDC Recission Letter | PDF
- April 2024: Data Modernization Appropriations | PDF
- April 2024: FY24 Food Chemical Letter | PDF
- April 2024: FY25 ATSDR Appropriations | PDF
- April 2024: FY25 CDC NCEH Appropriations | PDF
- April 2024: FY25 OCCHE Appropriations | PDF
- April 2024: Amicus Brief in support of the Held Plaintiffs in Held v. Montana | PDF
- March 2024: FY25 Vector-Borne Appropriations | PDF
- February 2024: EPA Smoggy Skies | PDF
- February 2024: USDA’s Rural Decentralized Water Systems | PDF
- January 2024: Non-Defense Discretionary Cuts | PDF
- January 2024: HUD Protection from Radon | PDF
2023
- December 2023: Congressional Letter to Support Hearing on Opioid Overdoses at Work | PDF
- December 2023: CDC Coalition Letter on CDC FY 2024 Appropriations | PDF
- November 2023: Health Groups Comments on EPA Major Source Re-classification | PDF
- November 2023: HUD FHFA letter | PDF
- November 2023: Health Groups on Government Funding | PDF
- November 2023: Health Groups on EPA Funding | PDF
- September 2023: Healthy Homes Act of 2023 | PDF
- August 2023: Health Groups letter on USDA Farm Bill Food Nutrition | PDF
- July 2023: Health Groups Letter on FY24 Appropriations | PDF
- May 2023: FDA Collaboration with FDA | PDF
- April 2023: Friends of NIOSH FY24 Letter | PDF
- April 2023: OSHA-NIOSH Senate Funding Letter | PDF
- April 2023: FY24 DNPAO CDC Request CDC Coalition | PDF
- April 2023: OSHA-NIOSH House Funding Letter FY24 | PDF
- March 2023: FY24 USDA Rural Decentralized Water Systems Joint Letter | PDF
- March 2023: Data Modernization Initiative | PDF
- March 2023: FY24 Public Health and Bio Pilot LRP Appropriations Letter | PDF
- March 2023: FY24 ATSDR Request for CDC Coalition | PDF
- March 2023: FY24 CDC Request for CDC Coalition | PDF
- March 2023: Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health Funding | PDF
- March 2023: Health Partners Letter Opposing REINS Act | PDF
- March 2023: Health Org Air Coalition to Congress | PDF