Conservation Matters
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The future starts with a vision.
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An interview with CLF Staff Attorney Eloise Lawrence.
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IN AWE OF RIGHT WHALES: CLF's Adilson Gonzalez Morales shares his first sighting of a rare North Atlantic right whale--and how we can help make sure it's not his last.
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Two masters of an ocean art: sustainable fishing n. Fishing that does no damage to marine environments or ecosystems, and helps maintain fish populations plentiful enough to support thriving fisheries.
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PERSONAL ACTION ALONE WON'T SOLVE THE PLASTIC CRISIS, BUT IT CAN LEAD TO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROBLEM.
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RHODE ISLAND: For the health of the bay.
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Advocating for wilderness areas.
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CLF, Big Three at odds over clean air regulations.
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Fighting for the soul of Pilgrim Country.
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Giving wisely.
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Our successes are your successes.
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U.S. Senators Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont, and James M. Jeffords, I-Vermont.
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Creating an Aqua-culture.
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A guardian for troubled waters.
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Massachusetts.
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Be a smart philanthropist.
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A home at last: the Rhode Island office.
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Boston Harbor cleanup nears completion: CLF pushes for swimmable beaches.
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Burning Waste Poisons People: For this Saugus native, fighting for her community runs in the family.
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Taming the monster on the Bay.
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Completing the "Filthy Five" cleanup: Salem Harbor Station is responsible for 53 premature deaths, 570 emergency room visits, and 14,400 asthma attacks every year, according to a 2000 study by the Harvard School of Public Health.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
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Helping wind power work in Northern Maine.
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Hooked on Hook-caught Cod.
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Advocating for tidal estuary restoration.
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David Abel: As a reporter for The Boston Globe and a documentary filmmaker, David Abel casts light on serious environmental issues by crafting compelling stories that inspire action.
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Moooove over, dairy processors.
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Honorary and gift memberships.
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Marisa Carter: administrative coordinator, Massachusetts CLF.
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Linda Deegan & Chris Neill: Falmouth, MA / Members since 2010.
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New hope for a bivalve bonanza.
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CLF to FERC: wait on providence proposal: New England needs regional LNG strategy.
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We do our work for you and with you.
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Good news about making gifts to CLF directly from your IRA!
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Woodsman, spare that tree.
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What is in a name?
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Caution: difficult transportation funding choices ahead.
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Clean water and healthy forests: CLF looks upstream to reduce water pollution.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
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Following Boston's public bid to host the 2026 Summer Olympic Games, CLF closely analyzed the transportation-related aspects of the project, ultimately bringing to light a number of serious flaws in the proposal.
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Natural gas: friend or foe? With region's climate goals at risk, CLF works to keep gas in check.
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Letter from the president.
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PUC moves to boost energy efficiency.
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Saving wetlands, removing dams -- an ongoing theme: CLF in New Hampshire is ...
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You can help protect New England's National Forests.
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New life for an old tradition.
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Follow CLF online.
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CLF proposes new approach to protecting dwindling cod populations.
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Around CLF.
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Eating for the Environment.
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Maine.
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CLF Ventures welcomes managing director.
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Local food 2.0: training a new generation of farmers in Western Massachusetts.
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Smart growth.
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Megan Mayhew-Bergman.
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The ultimate bad weather forecast.
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A natural solution green infrastructure is transforming stormwater management for the 21st century.
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WHY I GIVE.
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Financial report.
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A timely look at a timeless place: New England is memories, history, places that call to us, an endlessly varied landscape, but is the winter over yet?
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The new 40B: a law with a heart.
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Why I give to CLF.
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New England's unique shorelines.
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The Ellie fund.
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Boston's fish pier facing the crosscurrents of change: Boston's 86-year-old fish pier isn't what it was. In 1936, 339 million pounds of seafood were unloaded there; last year's figure was less than nine million. Elegant new buildings are edging in, but CLF sees a glorious future for the venerable pier; New England's fishing stocks are coming back.
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Power grab.
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Curbing RI's global warming emissions.
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Join the Advocates Society.
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MAINE.
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MA transportation troubles: "pay-as-you-drive" insurance is part of the solution.
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Ventures.
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For the people: town schools, affordable housing, no "Circ": CLF in Vermont is ...
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The monster on the bay.
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Boosting Local Businesses: A new social investment fund offers much-needed capital to small businesses and nonprofits in Black and Brown communities.
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Dear CLF friends.
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Regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI) results are in: more effective, faster & Cheaper than predicted.
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Lawyers and law firms now have new.
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Clean energy and climate change: cleaner power and cleaner cars on tap for New England.
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New England onboard for more rail.
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Yes to diverse waterfronts and commuter convenience, no to sprawl: CLF in Massachusetts is ...
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Maine.
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CLF's conservation wisdom watch.
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LNG terminal siting: a broader view.
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Vermont.
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Major change and renewed commitment.
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New hampshire.
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MASSACHUSETTS.
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Rohemir Ramirez: CLF's newest staff attorney brings a unique perspective to his work on climate change, clean energy, and clean water, having experienced one of 2017's record-breaking hurricanes firsthand.
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CONNECTICUT ENDS INCENTIVES FOR GAS EXPANSION.
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Around CLF.
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Protecting the Great Bay estuary.
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We can reinvent the way we live.
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2018 Gala: CLF CELEBRATES LOCAL HEROES, LOCAL ACTION.
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Building a strong future for Vermont's waterways and farms.
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Environmental Insurance Agency promotes mileage-based insurance.
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Cleaning Up Cape Cod: Nitrogen pollution is choking once-vibrant waters throughout Cape Cod.
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Letter from the chair.
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Amid change, there is room for hope.
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Join the Advocates Society today!
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WHY I GIVE.
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CLF pushes for sensible transportation solutions.
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Redefining open space: the case for protecting open space in the sea.
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Here at CLF, we like a good party.
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"Decoupling" for RI would help boost energy efficiency savings.
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Diary of a Conscientious Eater.
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Big Problems in a Small State.
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Battling for cleaner wastewater.
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Saving Irreplaceable Resources.
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Ugly to some, tasty to others: this fish needs protection fast.
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Rhode Island.
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Innovation in energy efficiency: new solutions to benefit the environment.
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2008 Vermont legislative update.
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Thank you: your generous support helped us meet our year-end fundraising goal!(Brief article)
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Dear friends of CLF.
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Follow CLF online.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT.
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TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE: Puzzling out the future of transportation in New England.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT.
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On the anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene: the untold stories of what went right.
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The drilling debate.
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Trouble underfoot in Plaistow.
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Dear friends of CLF.
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MASSACHUSETTS.
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CLF helps coastal communities: bring New England's estuaries back to life.
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Reaping the wind in a brand new age: to some New Englanders, wind turbines are graceful and intriguing additions to the landscape that produce much-needed energy with no cost to the beleaguered natural environment. To others, they're a visual blight, one that threatens wildlife, fisheries, air and boat traffic, and the very sanctity of our public lands and waters.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT.
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In more good news for Lake Champlain, the EPA, prompted by CLF's 2008 lawsuit, has set long-awaited new limits on phosphorus pollution--a key culprit in toxic blue-green algae blooms --in the lake.
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Maine.
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A preference for local food: is the small farmer a dying breed? The odds against him are growing, but CLF is an ally of the first order. And the fight goes on.
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CLFBOARD MEMBERS: as of June 28, 2022.
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Putting biotech to work for cleaner ports.
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CLF's 2009 Challenge Match is making strides.
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Energy Keeps Us Going.
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Cracking down on nutrient pollution: CLF fights to bring New England's coastal waters back to life.
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VERMONT.
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Environmental Racism Is Killing Us All: We must fight against a form of systemic and institutional racism that is killing us all--environmental racism.
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Beneath the waves: CLF charts the course for a network of ocean conservation areas.
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Earth day Challenge: we did it!(Brief article)
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SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS OF CLF.
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Mapping priority areas for conservation in our ocean waters.
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Green values triumph in Natick.
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In August, CLF's Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper teamed up with local businesses Seven Rivers Paddling and Timberland to patrol the bay's shores and pick up trash.
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RHODE ISLAND.
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Restoring New England's estuaries: follow the story of an estuary restoration project.
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Challenging regional sewage outfall.
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A green offensive for New England.
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Vermont.
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WHY I GIVE.
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CLF Advocates Society: ten years of engaging, encouraging and recognizing our most generous annual fund supporters.
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A half-decade at CLF's helm.
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The Great Bay initiative continues.
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Brian Skerry: National Geographic photographer.
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CLF's focus on people.
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Why do we need a national ocean policy? Case in point--Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
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The Interrupted Forest: a History of Maine's Wildlands.
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Why I give.
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Jen Duggan: The new Vice President and Director of CLF Vermont brings a track record of holding polluters accountable and a passion for working at the intersection of the environment and public health.
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Improving public transit in Boston: the Big Dig is not nearly as close to being finished as the media would have us believe.
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Cleaning up the Androscoggin.
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Lake Champlain has been plagued by toxic algae outbreaks that will only get worse without urgent action by the State to curb water pollution.
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Getting smart about energy.
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Beautifying Boston in a brand new century.
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Taking the lead on lead in MA.
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VERMONT.
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Transportation at the Crossroads: To avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis, we must reinvent the ways we travel--but we must do so with justice at the forefront.
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Alyssa Irizarry: As the Senior Vice President at Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs, Alyssa Irizarry is engaging young people in ocean conservation and advocacy through the arts.
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Our Man in New Hampshire.
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Canadian hydropower for New England? Awash in promises, as promise dries up.
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N.H Advocacy Center gets a 'Rising Star'.
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Chelsea Peak energy plant thwarted.
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Stopping the toxic drift: New England states fight to keep mercury out of our air and water.
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Vermont.
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Consuming the Sun, Touching the Earth.
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Business as Unusual.
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An alumni extravaganza: CLF was 36 years young in October. Join us for a memory tour.
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Rhode Island.
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A taste for local food and wild places.
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Saving the soul of Southern NH.
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Advocating for fair consideration of wind proposal.
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Global warming debate heats up.
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Revitalizing urban brownfields: goodbuys for troubled neighborhoods: CLF Ventures is helping to revitalize four brownfields, one on East Boston's Chelsea Creek, where oil tanks once stood; one in nearby Lynn, the former site of a commercial laundry; and two problem sites in New York's storied Harlem neighborhood.
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holding producers acountable (for the waste they create).
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The answer is floating in the Bay.
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Water-conscious ECO tip wins CLF's Great Green Giveaway.
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freeing the kennebec.
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CLF needs your help bringing zero emission vehicles to New England.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT.
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Dear friends of CLF.
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Fighting efforts to thwart Cape Wind project.
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Stellwagen Bank: still a sanctuary in name only.
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The Road to Ropeless Gear: A critical long-term solution to right whale recovery.
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CLF summer event: a resource in peril.
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Dear friends of CLF.
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Fighting big gas: how one community's fight could shape the future of New England.
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Dear CLF friends.
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A sporting man with a public view; Attorney Alan Wilson's strong background in business and financial management helps him to carry out the demanding duties of CLF Ventures vice president. And he still finds time for many civic activities, to climb in the Alps, sail a 42-foot sloop, and row-an ocean shell.
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Rhode island.
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The volunteer spirit lives.
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SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS OF CLF.
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Letter from the president.
