State: Massachusetts

Jan 30, 2023

Black Lives Matter

All of us at CLF are reeling from and sharing in the national outrage over the murders and persecution of black people perpetrated and condoned by the police and other state actors. Racial justice is at the heart of climate justice, and we fight for both.

Jan 25, 2023

Heather Thomas

Heather Thomas joins CLF as the Massachusetts Office Manager, supporting the Boston office and the Environmental Justice Program. She most recently worked in the travel industry and prior to that was part of the Operations & HR team at Ceres in Boston. She also served two years with AmeriCorps, where she coordinated food insecurity and… Continue reading Heather Thomas

Jan 25, 2023

Katherine Lee Goyette

Katherine Lee Goyette is a Staff Attorney assisting with the coordination of the Clean Energy and Climate Change Program’s efforts to ensure the timely, effective and equitable implementation of climate laws in all six New England states.  Prior to CLF, she served as Counsel at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU).  Her work at… Continue reading Katherine Lee Goyette

Jan 25, 2023

Gareth Lawson

Dr. Gareth Lawson is a Senior Scientist in the CLF Ocean Program. Before CLF, Gareth was a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where his research program focused on various marine animals in the context of fisheries, ecosystem management, and climate change. Gareth earned his PhD in the MIT–WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, his… Continue reading Gareth Lawson

Jan 23, 2023

Alexandra Jordan

Alex is a senior attorney with the Strategic Litigation team. Prior to joining CLF, Alex was a senior staff attorney on the economic justice team at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, where she litigated federal civil rights class actions challenging debtor prisons, money bail, privatized probation, and financial bias in the criminal… Continue reading Alexandra Jordan

Jan 23, 2023

Dominique White

Dominique White is the Program Coordinator for CLF’s People, Culture, and Equity department. In this role, she works to advance inclusion and a welcoming culture for all employees at CLF. She collaborates cross-organizationally to offer staff and volunteers resources and tools to apply an equity lens to the work they are doing for CLF.   Prior… Continue reading Dominique White

Jan 23, 2023

More Massachusetts districts are switching to electric school buses

In the last five years, the foundation successfully settled eight lawsuits against bus vendors, four of which serve schools.

“We really have to put the pressure on to get these companies to transition,” said Heather Govern, vice president and director of CLF’s Clean Air and Water Program.