When I boarded a yellow school bus from South Central LA to Pacific Palisades each day, no one in either neighborhood was talking about climate change. But times have changed, and the unprecedented fires in Los Angeles are showing us what climate change looks like.
CLF President Brad Campbell spoke about prospects for regional progress in 2025 at the intersection of climate, transportation, housing, and public health.
New research shines a light on Atlantic cod’s falling populations.
Open-ocean, finfish aquaculture might seem like an efficient alternative to traditional commercial fishing but these fish farms cause tremendous damage to New England’s environment.
CLF’s new director of research and metrics has spent her career examining health inequity. Now, she brings an ambitious goal to CLF: addressing environmental health disparities across New England.
New England’s drinking water is under threat from dangerous chemicals. Toxic per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, otherwise known as PFAS or “forever chemicals,” infiltrate water because they are widely used in consumer, commercial, and industrial products.
The Massachusetts legislature passed, and Governor Maura Healey has signed, a climate law that may be the first step toward a clean, reliable, and economical grid that will be less prone to outages and more resistant to extreme weather.
The Inflation Reduction Act, the most extensive climate legislation ever passed in the United States, is now under threat thanks to Donald Trump’s pledge to unravel it.
CLF will continue to counter Trump and make climate and environmental progress in the next four years.
The new report offers clear, actionable solutions to rebuild the state’s crumbling transportation system, while protecting the health, wallets, and quality of life of Massachusetts residents.
