Focus Area: Climate Change

Jun 25, 2025

The Truth About Cleanup After Natural Disasters

As the pace of natural disasters picks up, stunned communities ask themselves: How do we clean up from this? While there’s no easy answers, we need to take a more systematic approach to natural disasters.

Piles of debris on a Montpelier street
Jun 12, 2025

Trump Signs Repeal of Clean Cars and Trucks Standards

Transportation is the largest source of carbon pollution in New England. Switching from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles cuts the pollution that endangers health and fuels climate change.   

Jun 11, 2025

Conservation Matters: Summer 2025

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.

Magazine cover showing an underwater net filled with fish. Text reads Conservation Matters, a journal of Conservation Law Foundation. Beneath the Surface of Factory Fish Farms
Jun 09, 2025

The Down-to-Earth Promise of Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy could be a game changer in Connecticut, where more than 40% of homes burn heating oil for warmth and 37% use natural gas. Pollution from heating buildings accounts for about 30% of the state’s carbon emissions.