Scott Sanderson is the director of CLF’s Food & Farm Initiative and a staff attorney. Scott holds a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he participated in the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, the Climate Solutions Living Lab, and the Ghana Project. He worked with CLF in Vermont as a T.A. Barron… Continue reading Scott Sanderson
As CLF’s Lake Champlain Senior Lakekeeper, Julie Silverman works to advocate, inform, and inspire people to protect and restore Lake Champlain and its surrounding natural spaces in order to keep the Lake Champlain region a magnificent place to live, work, and play—the west coast of New England. Before joining CLF, Julie worked for the State… Continue reading Julie Silverman
A rule that governs one of New England’s electricity markets, the Minimum Offer Price Rule, has been extended for two years. Here’s why that’s a bad deal for New Englanders.
As New Englander’s, we are lucky to have our very own marine National Monument in our backyards. But it shouldn’t be the last. Here are 5 reasons why we must continue to protect special places in our ocean.
These polluting products are two sides of the same coin, and Big Oil and Gas are the culprits.
For too long, the world has treated plastic as a waste disposal problem. But plastic pollutes from the moment we extract fossil fuels from the ground. To truly tackle this crisis, we need to stop plastic production at its source. And the UN plastic treaty can do just that – on a global scale.
Over the last several years, Vermont’s farmers have made tremendous progress in cutting dangerous phosphorus pollution from their properties. But a longstanding turf war between two state agencies is putting that progress at risk.
Learn how CLF’s Healthy Retail and Commerce Fund helped support Community Servings and the impact they expect to see on community, health and the environment.
We need clean energy without having to risk our health and climate. Responsible offshore wind offers a viable solution, but it has to be done right – including to protect marine species. That’s why CLF and our partners worked to develop best practices for developers to utilize and get offshore wind right for North Atlantic right whales.
Despite the clear and present dangers their oil storage facilities pose, including to communities here in New England, Big Oil has failed to invest in measures to safeguard them from sea level rise and increasingly powerful and frequent storms – climate harms their polluting products have caused. Indeed, they haven’t even taken the required steps… Continue reading Conservation Matters: Spring 2022
