Elisa Boxer-Cook came full circle. Previously, the main anchor on ABC affiliate of Portland, Maine, WMTW, the Emmy award-winning journalist spent years covering the important story of the day, until she found herself in the fight of his life — recovering from illness resulting from chemical substances in materials in which she thought she was your family's brand-new "dream home."
Having found his passion — the Defender to environmental health and safety of children and their families — Elisa again is to inform others. She uses his time, his talent and his story to educate families about everything from toxic chemicals in consumer products daily to health risks associated with wireless radiation.
Elisa was nominated by her husband.Here is what he wrote:
"My wife Elisa Boxer-Cook is a force of nature, when it comes to protecting the health and safety of children she is fueled by pure passion, motivated by love and equipped with dogged determination of a reporter to find and share the truth. Elisa has devoted his time and his heart to get laws that reduce the toxic burden on families of Maine.
A TV news anchor ancient, she found herself covering the most important story of his life following build what we thought was our "dream house".
After she and our newborn son was sick of chemicals used in the materials that go into a House, Elisa worked tirelessly to learn everything she could — not only about chemicals that had threatened her health and that of our son, but also about the potentially dangerous chemicals that we are in everyday products.
Search Elisa took the task of his life to donate their time and energy to become a lawyer to protect children's environmental health organizations across the State has enlisted your help in passing laws promoting safer chemical policy.
Elisa has gone against the chemical industry and testified before State legislative committees in seven issues related to safer chemical policy, including accounts to help schools adopt Green cleaning practices, which prohibits a particularly toxic flame retardants in favor of safer alternatives and fighting for more stringent pesticide notification laws.
Elisa was recognized with the environmental award of the Council of Maine natural resources to help pass the Kids Safe products Act, a law on progressive course of toxic chemicals from commodities in Maine, and that in several hearings Elisa testified that chemical companies tried in vain to overturn the law.
Presenting the award, the Executive Director of NRCM said Elisa "She is giving an example for people everywhere."
Elisa was requested to join several environmental health boards and commissions, including doctors for Maine Chapter of social responsibility. Elisa is in its Advisory Committee newly formed Toxics, whose goal is to draw the attention of pediatricians and pediatric nurses on the links between chemicals and child health.
Earlier this month, Elisa testified before the Maine Department of environmental protection, a bill that would ban bisphenol a (BPA), a compound found in certain plastics, products for children.
Elisa was invited to speak at conferences and panels on environmental health and safer chemical toxic policy and reform.
Elisa is not a paid lobbyist, although his knowledge on these matters rivals with someone hired to do this work for her, this work is a labor of love.
She took the terrible personal experience of your exposure to toxic and turned it into a vehicle for positive change. everyday Elisa is raising awareness about the dangers of toxins and help people make choices that are safer, healthier for their families in everything from toys and personal hygiene products for cleaning materials and construction materials.
Elisa left behind his job as television journalist an Emmy award-winning, but his work remains seriously. She is committed to the goal of making the world a safer place for children and does so with a wonderful combination of qualities exclusively suited to this new, more meaningful work.
Elisa is a brilliant writer and an eloquent speaker, whose words on the page or in a listening room, are both grounded and increasingly raised by one of the strongest forces this earth — a mother infinite love."
Best regards
Doug Boxer-Cook.
Scarborough, Maine.
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