Leadership & Members
Founded in 2010, the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards is a national alliance of more than 160 consumer, labor, scientific, research, good government, faith, community, health, environmental, and public interest groups — representing millions of Americans.
The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards is led by an executive committee co-chaired by Public Citizen and Consumer Federation of America. The committee also includes the AFL-CIO, the Center for Progressive Reform, the Economic Policy Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
To join CSS, please contact Rachel Weintraub at rweintraub@sensiblesafeguards.org.
The following national organizations are members of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards:
- AFL-CIO — @AFLCIO
- Alliance for Justice — @AFJustice
- American Association of University Professors — @AAUP
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — @AFSCME
- American Federation of Teachers — @AFTunion
- American Forum — @AmericanForum
- American Lung Association — @LungAssociation
- American Rivers — @americanrivers
- American Sustainable Business Council — @ASBCouncil
- Americans for Financial Reform — @RealBankReform
- Better Markets — @BetterMarkets
- BlueGreen Alliance — @BGAlliance
- Campaign for Contract Agriculture Reform (CCAR) — @rafiusa
- Center for American Progress — @amprog
- Center for Auto Safety — @Ctr4AutoSafety
- Center for Biological Diversity — @CenterForBioDiv
- Center for Digital Democracy — @DigitalDemoc
- Center for Food Safety — @CFSTrueFood
- Center for International Environmental Law — @ciel_tweets
- Center for Progressive Reform — @CPRBlog
- Center for Responsible Lending — @CRLONLINE
- Center for Science in the Public Interest — @CSPI
- Citizens Trade Campaign — @citizenstrade
- Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities — @ccd4pwd
- Consumer Federation of America — @ConsumerFed
- Consumers Union — @ConsumersUnion
- CounterCorp — @CounterCorp
- Demos — @Demos_Org
- Earthjustice — @Earthjustice
- Economic Policy Institute — @EconomicPolicy
- Environment America — @EnvAm
- Environmental Working Group — @ewg
- Farmworker Justice — @FarmwrkrJustice
- First Person Politics — @firstpersonpol
- Free Press — @freepress
- Friends of the Earth — @foe_us
- Good Jobs First — @GoodJobsFirst
- Government Information Watch
- Green for All — @GreenForAll
- In the Public Interest — @PubInterest
- Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy — @IATP
- Institute for Science and Human Values — @HumanistXXI
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters — @Teamsters
- International Center for Technology Assessment
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) — @UAW
- Jacobs Institute for Women’s Health — @GWpublichealth
- League of Conservation Voters — @LCVoters
- Main Street Alliance — @mainstreetweets
- Media Matters for America — @mmfa
- National Association of Consumer Advocates — @NACAdvocate
- National Center for Healthy Housing — @NCHH
- National Consumers League — @ncl_tweets
- National Council for Occupational Safety and Health — @NationalCOSH
- National Employment Law Project — @NelpNews
- National Family Farm Coalition — @FamilyFarmCo
- National Women’s Health Network — @TheNWHN
- National Women’s Law Center — @nwlc
- Natural Resources Defense Council — @NRDC
- Oceana — @oceana
- Partnership for Working Families — @P4WF
- People for the American Way — @peoplefor
- Project on Government Oversight (POGO) — @POGOBlog
- Protect All Children’s Environment
- Public Citizen — @Public_Citizen
- Reproductive Health Technologies Project
- Sciencecorps
- Service Employees International Union — @SEIU
- Sierra Club — @SierraClub
- STOP Foodborne Illness — @Stopfoodillness
- The Arc of the United States — @TheArcUS
- Tigercomm — @Tigercomm
- Trust for America’s Health — @HealthyAmerica1
- U.S. Chamber Watch — @USChamberWatch
- U.S. PIRG — @uspirg
- Union of Concerned Scientists — @UCSUSA
- Union Plus — @UnionPlus
- United Food and Commercial Workers Union — @UFCW
- United Steelworkers — @steelworkers
- Voices for Progress
- Waterkeeper Alliance — @Waterkeeper
- Worksafe — @WorksafeCA
The following state and local organizations are also affiliated with the coalition:
Alaska
Arizona
- American Council on Consumer Awareness, AZ — @ConsumerFed
- American Lung Association in Arizona, AZ — @LungAssociation
- Arizona Advocacy Network, AZ — @AZadvocacy
- Arizona PIRG, AZ — @ArizonaPIRG
- Arizona Public Health Association, AZ — @azpha
- Families Against Cancer & Toxics, AZ
- Physicians for Social Responsibility – Arizona Chapter, AZ
California
Colorado
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
- American Lung Association in Illinois, IL — @LungAssociation
- Citizens Against Ruining the Environment, IL
- Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition, IL — @EverThriveIL
- Kids in Danger, IL — @kidsindanger
Indiana
Iowa
- American Lung Association in Iowa, IA — @LungAssociation
- Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility, IA — @PSREnvironment, @PSRnuclear
- Iowa PIRG, IA — @IowaPIRG
Kentucky
- American Lung Association in Kentucky, KY — @MidlandLung
- National Lawyers Guild in Kentucky, KY — @NLGnews
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
- American Lung Association in Michigan, MI — @MidlandLung
- Michigan Environmental Council, MI — @MichEnvCouncil
- PIRG in Michigan, MI
Minnesota
Montana
New Hampshire
- American Lung Association in New Hampshire, NH — @LungNE
- Citizens for Sludge-Free Land, NH
- New Hampshire PIRG, NH
- New Hampshire Audubon, NH — @nhaudobon
New Jersey
- American Lung Association in New Jersey, NJ — @AmericanLungNJ
- BlueWaveNJ, NJ — @BlueWave_NJ
- Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association, NJ
- New Jersey Coalition for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities, NJ — @ThinkPrevention
- New Jersey PIRG, NJ — @NJPIRG
- New Jersey Work Environment Council, NJ — @NJWEC
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance, NJ — @PinesAlliance
- The Arc of NJ, NJ — @thearcofnj
New Mexico
New York
- Citizen’s Environmental Coalition, NY
- New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), NY — @NYCOSH
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
- American Lung Association in Oregon, OR — @LungAssociation
- OSPIRG, OR — @OSPRIG
- Oregon PeaceWorks, OR
Pennsylvania
- American Lung Association in Pennsylvania, PA — @LungAssociation
- Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture), PA — @PennFuture
- Clean Air Council, PA — @cleanaircouncil
- HKQ Kids, PA
- PennPIRG, PA — @PennPIRG
- SEIU 668, PA — @seiu668
- UAW Local 1069, PA
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming