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
May 29, 2025

The Truth About Indoor Air Quality

We spend so much time indoors, working, studying, exercising, or just lounging around on the couch that indoor air quality – or the lack of it – can profoundly affect our health.

May 27, 2025

New Hampshire Officials Reject Polluting Facility in Claremont

The rejected proposal would have brought up to 130,000 tons of waste per year – about 2,500 times the site’s current volume – into a residential neighborhood, raising serious concerns about toxic runoff, truck traffic, and public health risks. 

Photo: image of garbage truck carrying waste from a dumpster into a waste transfer station or a landfill.
May 21, 2025

The Greenwashing Machine

   About 15 years ago, Exxon Mobil ran a TV commercial that never mentioned oil or gas. Instead, it featured a friendly-looking Exxon scientist describing his work turning algae into “biofuels that we could someday run our cars on.” These new fuels would “help solve the greenhouse problem,” he said, because “they absorb CO2.” The… Continue reading The Greenwashing Machine