Jeremiah Baumann

Jeremaih Baumann is a Toxics and Environmental Health Advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). U.S. PIRG is the National Association of State PIRGs, state-based public interest advocacy organizations with a 30-year history of advocacy to protect consumers, the environment, and good-government reforms. As Toxics and Environmental Health Advocate, Baumann advocates for policies that protect the public from toxic hazards through increasing public information and communities' right to know about toxic chemical use and release, and through advocating for reduced use of toxic materials. Baumann has most recently led advocacy efforts to expand right-to-know reporting under the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for persistent bioaccumulative toxic substances, including the effort to increase TRI reporting of lead emissions. He is the author of multiple reports on toxic hazards published by the State PIRGs, including co-authoring the recent "Brain Food: What Women Should Know About Mercury in Fish" with the Environmental Working Group.