Across regions, people are standing up for their health, culture, and environment – pushing back on unjust waste infrastructure and reclaiming power over their communities’ futures. In Old Town, Maine, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, residents are confronting a familiar pattern – and showing what it takes to break the cycle and build lasting change.
In partnership with the community, CLF has been actively opposing the expanded facility.
Rhode Island legislators chose inaction on issues critical to the health and well-being of Rhode Islanders.
This bill allows Casella to yet again fill the landfill with other states’ construction waste, creating toxic garbage juice that ultimately flows into waterways, like the Penobscot River, and puts people at risk.
This failure keeps us stuck in the same polluting patterns that harm our health, our wallets, and our communities.
CLF is appealing New Hampshire’s approval of a permit that allows the Manchester Wastewater Treatment Facility to discharge toxic PFAS chemicals – also known as “forever chemicals” – into the Merrimack River.
Aquaculture fish farms are polluting the Gulf of Maine and harming native fish populations. CLF is suing to make them clean up their act.
With more boots on the ground than ever across all six New England states, we will be undaunted in these fights and the many others to come.
Conservation Law Foundation and All-Star Transportation settled a lawsuit over Clean Air Act violations from harmful tailpipe emissions in Brookfield, New Milford, Seymour, and Waterbury.
This bill takes important first steps and creates a needed stakeholder process, but it doesn’t confront the root cause of Vermont’s broken system: the divided jurisdiction over agricultural water pollution.
