Focus Area: Healthy Communities

Oct 24, 2024

3 Terrifying Truths About the MBTA

Boston’s MBTA is crumbling, underfunded, and unreliable, leaving riders stranded and disconnected. These three terrifying truths reveal the haunting reality of our aging transit system, calling for urgent action to secure funding and prevent further collapse.

An MBTA rider is wearing a Halloween costume of the orange line on fire. The costume plays on the idea that riding the MBTA is terrifying.
Sep 30, 2024

Conservation Matter: Fall 2024

As the impacts of climate change become more intense across New England, nature-based solutions will be a key piece of the solution.

Cover of Conservation Matters. Photo of a fish surrounded by kelp. Text overlay: "Conservation Matters: Conservation Law Foundation. The Underwater Magnificence of Cashes Ledge. Fall 2024. CLF."
Sep 11, 2024

5 Questions for… Denise January

Meet Denise January of Alternatives for Community and Environment, to learn more about her work and vision as a coordinator for the EJAN program: a network helping low-income residents and communities of color who face environmental challenges like air pollution and unsafe drinking water.

Group of members, pro-bono volunteers, and leaders of the Environmental Justice Assistance Network (EJAN) gathered outside on a deck with trees on the background for re-launch celebration event.
Aug 13, 2024

Gas Leaks Posing Danger to Massachusetts Communities

In the latest effort to prevent methane leaks that pose explosive dangers to communities, kill trees, and cost families and businesses money for gas that never reaches their home or office, Conservation Law Foundation has announced plans to sue National Grid for federal and state violations.

Unhealthy tree along a gas main