Linda Deegan & Chris Neill: Falmouth, MA / Members since 2010.

• Position: WHY WE GIVE - Brief article

"During the nearly 30 years we have lived in Falmouth, nitrogen pollution has transformed our estuaries from eelgrass-filled bays with scallops and winter flounder to less attractive and less diverse algae-choked waters. We study these changes in our lives as research scientists.

We believe that occasional and well-considered legal actions can contribute to solving this complex problem.

CLF has played a key role by forcing action to clean up nitrogen pollution through its detailed knowledge of state and federal laws and its willingness to take legal steps when needed.

We want our support of CLF to speed up efforts to reduce nitrogen pollution and hasten the day when we can wade out from shore into eelgrass meadows, as we...