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.
Learn some of the most impactful activities you can do this Earth Day.
Plastic is everywhere – even in the places you’d least expect, like chewing gum, tea bags, wet wipes, receipts, and microwaveable popcorn bags. Yet, manufacturers continue to make more and more plastic each year – even though how plastic is made fuels a toxic cycle of production, consumption, and disposal.
Despite the fossil fuel industry’s greenwashing, “renewable” natural gas still pollutes the climate and hurts our health.
Trump’s latest executive order aims to make English the only official U.S. language – threatening civil rights and silencing millions. Learn how this move harms communities, undermines language access, and why CLF is fighting back to protect everyone’s voice.
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.
CLF is advocating for bills that promote environmental justice and reduce inequity across New England
Neonicotinoids are killing off vulnerable pollinators, polluting the environment, and harming human beings.
Climate Superfund bills could make the worst climate polluters fund projects to protect New Englanders from the impacts of climate change.
The Trump administration has taken aim at NOAA and the EPA. We’re ready to fight back.
