Coalition for Healthy Ports

Join Clean Water Action for a Summer Port Tour in NJ!

July 11, 2026 | Elizabeth, NJ

Join us for a Port Tour to gain a better understanding of the impact that shipping goods mostly by dirty diesel trucks across NJ, from port to warehouse to delivery, is having on both our health, environment, goods movement workers and frontline communities.

A dozen advocates standing by an industrial port in New Jersey

Diesel Pollution Is Harming NJ Communities – This Bill Could Change That

July 24, 2025 | By Tolani Taylor

Take Action Now - Tell your legislators to support the NJ Indirect Source Review Bill!

World Asthma Day - Truck Count & Press Conference

May 20, 2025 | Elizabeth, NJ

When: NEW RAIN DATE: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Where: 1050 Sherman Ave, (Twin City Warehousing Co.), Elizabeth, NJ In honor of World Asthma Day, May 6, Clean Water Action is calling all advocates and local community members in Elizabeth to come learn about the connection between

Image of Newark diesel truck traffic by Tolani Taylor

Taking a Ride to the Port of Newark

May 11, 2023 | By Tolani Taylor

Port-adjacent communities, like Newark’s Ironbound and South Ward neighborhoods, are home to high concentrations of polluting facilities and have some of the country's highest rates of childhood asthma.

Motorcade Rally to Demand the Port Authority Ensure Clean Air & Good Jobs Now

July 19, 2016 | By Jenny Vickers

Yesterday, Clean Water Action joined the Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) and City of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka to lead a motorcade rally through the port followed by a rally on the steps of City Hall to demand the Port Authority of NY/NJ ensure clean air and good jobs now. Clean Water Action and

Kim Gaddy and Clean Water Action at a Ports Motorcade Rally for Clean Air & Good Jobs. Photo by Jeanette Mitchell

From Portland, Oregon to Washington DC: Clean Air and Ports that’s the Ticket

February 23, 2016 | By Amy Goldsmith

By Amy Goldsmith, State Director, Clean Water Action. Follow on Twitter. Solid as a rock Rooted like a tree I am here Standing strong In my rightful place This is the song that was sung by community organizers from across the country to kick off the Moving Forward Network’s (MFN) annual meeting in