May 23, 2025

Connecticut Students Deserve Fare-Free Transit – This Law Can Help

Fare-free transit could open doors for thousands of Connecticut students. Learn how this law can remove transportation barriers, boost opportunity, and invest in youth potential. Drawing from personal experience, Marc Gonzalez makes a compelling case for statewide fare-free buses as a bridge to a brighter future.

CTtransit bus in downtown Hartford, supporting fare-free transit for students.
Apr 28, 2025

The Truth About Electric Buses: From Challenges to Benefits

Electric buses are transforming public transit with cleaner air, quieter streets, and lower long-term costs. From Boston to Burlington, communities benefit from healthier rides and reliable service. Despite federal setbacks, local action can accelerate this transition. Learn why investing in electric buses is essential for a cleaner, safer future.

Electric bus charging at a station, highlighting the future of clean transit with electric buses.
Feb 27, 2025

Rolling Back Environmental Justice Regulations: Can They Do That? 

The Trump administration is working to roll back environmental justice protections like Justice40 and Title VI – but can they really do that? Undoing these policies won’t be easy, but their strategy goes beyond legal challenges. Learn how communities can fight back against these attacks on clean air, safe water, and environmental equity.

A wooden gavel held by a hand is poised above a small globe balancing on a judge's sound block, symbolizing the intersection of environmental justice and legal decisions. The background is blurred, emphasizing the focus on the gavel and Earth.
Feb 14, 2025

Rebuilding Allston’s Future: Prioritize People Over Pavement

Highways have cut Allston off for decades, limiting how people move and connect. The Allston Multimodal Project is a chance to fix that—if we push MassDOT to prioritize people, not just cars. Here’s how we can make it work for everyone.

Aerial view of the Allston Interchange and surrounding rail yards, highways, and industrial land, showing the barriers dividing the neighborhood from the Charles River. The Allston Multimodal Project aims to reconnect these communities.
Oct 24, 2024

3 Terrifying Truths About the MBTA

Boston’s MBTA is crumbling, underfunded, and unreliable, leaving riders stranded and disconnected. These three terrifying truths reveal the haunting reality of our aging transit system, calling for urgent action to secure funding and prevent further collapse.

An MBTA rider is wearing a Halloween costume of the orange line on fire. The costume plays on the idea that riding the MBTA is terrifying.
Jul 22, 2024

5 Questions for Marina Vaz

Passion for fashion and ready to take action! Meet Marina Vaz, CLF’s environmental justice community advocate, and learn about her vision for the future of Nashua.

Headshot of Marina Vaz, CLF's environmental justice advocate in Nashua, NH.
Jul 22, 2024

Boston Cyclists Deserve Better

Biking and the infrastructure to support it should be an integral part of Boston’s climate and transit vision. They should go hand in hand with reducing carbon pollution and increasing transit equity.

A woman bikes in a bike lane in Boston