For too long, the way Massachusetts approved energy projects failed to fully consider what communities already live with before adding new infrastructure. New energy siting rules taking effect July 1 mark a major step toward a fairer process. CLF and our partners helped win these reforms so residents have more say and decision-makers take a fuller look before approving major projects.
For decades, CLF has been a leading force in holding polluters accountable, protecting Lake Champlain, pushing for stronger safeguards, and driving real progress. That work has made a difference.
We don’t have to choose between protecting environmental justice communities and advancing the projects we need for a cleaner, more productive economy.
The proposed expansion of the state-owned landfill has long raised concerns about PFAS contamination, air pollution, and the cumulative environmental burdens placed on nearby communities.
The food justice movement calls for a reevaluation of our food system and how it excludes many people from access to nutritious, affordable food.
Neonicotinoids are killing off vulnerable pollinators, polluting the environment, and harming human beings.
In most states, bottle return programs don’t cover wine bottles. So, our options for recycling them are limited. That means they end up mixed with trash or littering our communities. But there’s a simple solution: expand bottle bills.
States pushed back on his environmental attacks because you demanded they do so
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.
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.
