Oct 02, 2025
Merrimack Station Powers Down Coal for Good
In a milestone moment for clean energy and public health, the last remaining coal-fired power plant in New England is being deactivated.
Campaign: Coal-Free New England 2020
Mar 28, 2025
Accelerating the Clean Energy Future
The Schiller and Merrimack power plants are New England’s last two coal-fired behemoths. During their operating lives, the two relics pumped out deadly soot and climate-damaging carbon pollution. Now, thanks to a CLF campaign, they’re set to close.
Jun 29, 2024
Conservation Matters: Summer 2024
We have no time to waste and no tolerance for the false narratives peddled by the fossil fuel industry in the media and in the courts.
Jun 05, 2024
Winds of Change
The Salem Harbor site where a coal-fired power plant once stood is slated to become a clean energy offshore wind port terminal in 2026, launching New England definitively into a clean energy future.
Mar 28, 2024
Say Goodbye to New England’s Last Two Coal-Fired Power Plants
New England’s last two coal-fired power plants will close by 2028 and the region will finally be free of this polluting, toxic, climate-changing fuel.
Oct 05, 2022
Three Hot Tips to Help the Ocean Cool Down
Why is our ocean overheating? The main is that it is working overtime to protect us. An overheating ocean spells bad news for marine life and humans. But we can help. Here’s ho
Apr 27, 2022
Upgrading Our Energy Systems
We can end our region’s reliance on fossil fuels.
Jan 19, 2021
Court Rejects Trump Emissions Rollbacks
“The court saw right through the Trump Administration’s naked attempt to throw a lifeline to dirty outmoded coal plants,” said CLF President Bradley Campbell. “Decimating critical emissions standards would have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans by the EPA’s own estimates. It’s fitting that an administration solely focused on destructive environmental rollbacks has been handed a resounding defeat on its last day in office.”
May 26, 2020
EPA Backtracks on Merrimack Station Water Permit
“In addition to being a major source of air pollution, the Merrimack Station coal-fired power plant has been destroying the health of the Merrimack River,” Tom Irwin, Director of Conservation Law Foundation New Hampshire said. “It’s inexcusable that EPA, after determining this outdated facility would require modern cooling towers, would reverse course and put the interests of Big Coal over the health of such an iconic water body.”
Aug 15, 2019
Sierra Club, CLF bring Merrimack Station to federal court over thermal pollution
A federal court judge will soon decide whether a lawsuit should go forward that the Sierra Club and Conservation Law Foundation has filed over alleged violations of water-discharge permits for the Merrimack Station coal-burning power plant in Bow.