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 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.
The Pawtucket, Rhode Island project includes the creation of 150 units of all-electric housing and is supported by an $8.35 million equity investment from the Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund, which is administered by CLF and MHIC.
CLF will continue to counter Trump and make climate and environmental progress in the next four years.
We have both great momentum and the fight of our lives ahead of us. And to prevail in that fight we need state officials committed to climate and environmental progress to step up their game.
If New Englanders hope to address the climate crisis, more of us must upgrade our old oil boilers and gas furnaces to electric heat. Our buildings are responsible for nearly a third of all the carbon pollution overheating our planet.
Supercharged storms are rampaging through towns and cities like a bull liberated from a pen, crashing through a fragile utility infrastructure that, in many cases, has not changed in a century. U tility companies submit to the onslaught of storms, repair the damage, then obediently wait for more and do it all over again.
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North Atlantic right whales are fascinating, majestic creatures. Get to know some remarkable facts about this critically endangered species.
Diving Cashes Ledge reveals a fantastic hotspot of biodiversity
