environmental justice

Celebrating Juneteenth: Fighting for Water Justice

June 16, 2023 | By Maureo Fernández y Mora and Uzoma Adichie

We celebrate Juneteenth by honoring environmental leaders in the Black community, and we honor what it represents by grounding our campaigns in Environmental Justice principles and following the leadership of frontline communities of color.

Celebrating Juneteenth: Fighting for Environmental Justice

June 16, 2023 | By Maureo Fernández y Mora and Uzoma Adichie

Happy Juneteenth! Celebrate with Clean Water Action as we continue to fight for Environmental Justice today and every day.

Cumulative Impacts Win for MN & Next Steps for Environmental Justice

May 23, 2023 | By Sasha Lewis-Norelle

With the 2023 legislative session ending, Minnesota joins New Jersey and New York in passing cumulative impacts legislation. This bill is the culmination of years of work, community advocacy and organizing, research, and building power at the legislature to protect our overburdened communities - and the movement for environmental justice is growing.

Sasha Lewis-Norelle at Frontline Communities Protection Act Press Conference

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.

Meet Hanna Nuttall - Our Energy Justice Outreach Specialist!

May 8, 2023 | By Catherine Middelmann

Hanna is joining our Clean Water family to work on energy efficiency upgrades for residents of Southeastern Massachusetts through Mass Save as part of their Community First Partnership.

Image of Hanna Nuttall - Our Energy Justice Outreach Specialist at Clean Water Action in MA

Image of Chrissy Lynch, Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO with a quote that reads “The more our movements stick together, the harder it is for them to pick us apart and divide us.”

A Conversation with Chrissy Lynch, Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO

May 1, 2023 | By Kerry Doyle

The labor and environmental movements are organizing together to ensure that this work is not only building a cleaner future, but also building economic opportunity in the form of good, union jobs.