Dec 22, 2025

Conservation Matters: Winter 2025

CLF is on the ground and in the courts, sustaining our clean energy progress. The stakes could not be higher. CLF will not relent until a just, affordable, and sustainable energy future becomes reality for all.

Magazine cover showing a small yellow cut-out house wrapped in a gray scarf. The house is not the actual size. Text reads Conservation Matters, a journal of Conservation Law Foundation. What's Fueling Your High Energy Bills.
Dec 15, 2025

A Sustainable (and Tasty) Solution to Ocean Health

Since 2019, Ken Sparta and his son Leo have quite literally leapt into the world of oyster and kelp farming, where they now regularly pull oysters and kelp from the coastal waters near Freeport, Maine. In fact, in 2024, Spartan Sea Farms hauled 100,000 pounds of kelp out of the water.

Oct 28, 2025

The Villain, a Cure, and a Shift

We’ve got to understand that this is about to become a flaming pocketbook issue for Americans who right now don’t see climate change as something that immediately affects them.

Oct 20, 2025

Five Things You Need to Know About Lead Poisoning

Lead poisoning remains a hidden danger in homes, pipes, and soil across New England. The good news? It’s 100% preventable. Learn the facts about lead exposure – and how we can protect families from this toxic threat once and for all.

Close-up of a gloved hand holding a blood vial labeled "Lead (Pb) - Test," surrounded by test tubes, a syringe, and a stethoscope on a medical report – illustrating how lead poisoning is diagnosed through blood testing.
Oct 14, 2025

Painting a Safer Tomorrow

Decades after lead paint was banned, thousands of New England homes still pose a hidden danger – especially to children. Learn about the ongoing risks of lead exposure, the policy gaps that allow it to persist, and what communities can do to ensure safe, healthy housing for all.

A row of aging New England triple-decker homes in Dorchester, Massachusetts, with peeling paint and weathered porches—representing the hidden threat of lead paint still present in many older housing units built before 1978, where families remain at risk of lead exposure due to insufficient testing and remediation.
Oct 08, 2025

Five Things To Know About Tailpipe Emissions

For far too long, we’ve accepted the vehicle exhaust that clouds our roads and cities as just the price we pay to move from one place to another. It’s become our new normal. Our acceptance of this status quo is part of the reason that the transportation sector was the largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States in 2022.