CLF, communities celebrate major environmental justice victories.

• Position: Massachusetts - Conservation Law Foundation - Brief article

Environmental justice communities in Greater Boston recently welcomed two significant victories with help from CLF's Healthy Communities and Environmental Justice Program.

In Chelsea, residents are breathing a little easier now that energy developers have scrapped plans to build a 250-megawatt diesel power plant next to an elementary school. The decision in November 2007 to withdraw the application for state approval came after months of opposition from environmental and community groups including the Chelsea Greenspace Committee, Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) and CLE State officials issued a certificate declaring the project "unlikely to receive approval," forcing the developer to abandon the application.

In Roxbury and the South End, residents applauded the findings of a blistering federal report that...