Focus Area: Clean Air & Water

Apr 22, 2025

The Truth About Plastic

Big Plastic has sold us on these easy-to-use plastic products and packaging, even though their effects, in the long run, are neither quick nor easy. In fact, the intrusion of plastic into every conceivable corner of our lives is contributing to the degradation of not only the planet but of our very own bodies.

pile of trash
Apr 08, 2025

Exposure to Chemicals is Making Our Kids Sick

In the 1970s, Philip J. Landrigan conducted groundbreaking work linking lead in gasoline and paint to a lowered IQ in children exposed to it. Now he’s sounding the alarm about the pesticides and plastics in our lives that are also compromising the health of both children and adults.

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.

An angled, overhead view of the Merrimack coal station.
Mar 27, 2025

Letting Rivers Flow Freely

The Kennebec River is emblematic of the damage dams can do to healthy rivers. For decades, dams blocked fish passage in Maine, causing a series of cascading problems. That’s why CLF has worked hard to remove dams that are harming people, communities, and wildlife.

A dam in Skowhegan, ME on the Kennebec River. Robby Virus via Flikr