LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT.

AuthorCampbell, Bradley
PositionConservation Law Foundation of New England's advocacy wins - Column

As I write, federal workers are returning to their desks after the longest government shutdown in history. While the shutdown idled federal workers and put the health and safety of the most vulnerable at risk, it did not slow President Trump's push to weaken vital protections or confirm former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler for the top job at EPA.

Against this backdrop of federal chaos, a series of recent CLF advocacy wins presents a stark contrast.

* A Massachusetts report on the future of transportation adopted most of CLF's substantive recommendations and put a spotlight on climate change and public transit. The report was followed by the commitment of a dozen Northeast governors to work together on a plan, to be completed within a year, to reduce carbon pollution from transportation regionwide.

* On Cape Cod, we celebrated a slam-dunk court win in our Clean Water Act case against the Wychmere resort, which is a major source of the sewage pollution fouling the Cape's bays with brown algae blooms. And our work with partners on a short-term rentals tax will create new funding for Cape towns to improve wastewater infrastructure to address this pollution issue regionwide.

* Also in January, our effort to stop pollution from...

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