Your Advocacy in Action.

In the past year, we rallied our 35,000+ followers to take nearly 14,000 actions on local, state, and federal issues, from contacting legislators and sending in comments on draft regulations to signing petitions. That's 58% more actions than in the previous year. Here are just some of the issues that you spoke up for.

We urged supporters to leave a comment with federal fisheries managers supporting a measure aimed at better tracking overfishing of the struggling Atlantic cod population and more sustainably managing all of New England's groundfish populations. PHOTO: BRIAN SKERRY

We sounded an alarm about so-called "advanced recycling," a dangerous false solution to the plastic pollution crisis, and prevented a bill in Rhode Island that would have exempted "advanced recycling" facilities from the siting and public permitting processes that help to protect communities. PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

We drove support for strong regulations that will address harmful wastewater pollution on Cape Cod--pollution that is driving the region's waters to the brink of ecological disaster.

PHOTO: ECOPHOTOGRAPHY

We mobilized supporters to ask legislators to close a loophole in Maine law that allowed waste from other states to be buried in a state-owned landfill.

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

We pushed to stop a Connecticut bill favored by the plastics and fossil fuel industries that would have allowed them to continue business as usual rather than hold them accountable...

To continue reading

Request your trial

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT