The fossil fuel industry is challenging a first-of-its-kind law meant to protect the wallets of Vermont families and businesses who are currently paying to cleanup and repair damage after extreme storms caused by climate change.
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 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.
On behalf of every family and business affected by extreme weather, I demanded accountability and accuracy from our government.
CLF will continue to counter Trump and make climate and environmental progress in the next four years.
Conservation Law Foundation has opposed the State of Vermont’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by CLF to hold the Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources accountable after she failed to ensure the state is on track to reduce climate-damaging emissions.
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.
While ANR’s plan is a first step, it is lacking and will not adequately protect Vermont’s waters, including Lake Champlain, from the excess phosphorus that continues to cause the state’s waters to run with toxic algae.
