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 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 David Rosen at (202) 588-7742 or drosen@citizen.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