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 the coalition, please contact CSS Executive Director 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
• Appliance Standards Awareness Project — @ASAPstandards
• 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
• Consumer Reports — @ConsumerReports
• 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