Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.

Our Healthy and Resilient Communities program is a dynamic suite of initiatives that brings a people-centered approach to environmentalism. We promote economic well-being as a component of environmental health; advocate for land use policies to improve recreational opportunities, food, and housing for all; and bolster our policy and legal expertise.

CLF is working with partners to accelerate the development of healthy neighborhoods in the New England region and nationally to reduce health disparities and improve quality of life and well-being in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

CLF also works to improve the resilience of the region’s communities to survive and thrive in a changing climate. We seek to reduce environmental risk and improve climate resilience in vulnerable communities.

Through our Legal Food Hub, CLF works to support New England’s farmers and food businesses as they address the ripple effects of climate change.

Ocean conservation has been one of our top program priorities since the mid-1970s. Our more than 40-year track record has established Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) as the leading ocean advocate in the region and a force in Washington, D.C., where the stage for ocean policy is largely set and played out. Our Ocean Conservation program’s mission is to restore and protect New England’s oceanic environment, promote resiliency in the face of a changing climate, and build a sustainable future for the region’s coastal communities.

CLF continues to work to ensure that the Atlantic’s sole Marine National Monument, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, remains protected.

Our campaign to restore the Atlantic cod population requires articulating scientifically informed fishing guidelines, expanded habitat protection, and gear modification to mitigate bycatch.

We’re also working to save New England’s iconic – yet critically endangered – North Atlantic right whale before it’s too late.

For more than 50 years, CLF has fought to keep New England’s air and waters clean and healthy. It’s how we made our name – forcing polluters to clean up the dirty waters of Boston Harbor and turning the city’s shame into one of its most prized resources. We’ve taken the lessons learned from that hard-won victory and put them to work all across New England. We hold polluters accountable and push for the enforcement of clean air and water laws at the local, state, and federal levels. Today we are:

Cleaning up polluted runoff: We’re fighting for new protections and creative solutions to keep polluted runoff from wreaking havoc on our communities.

Safeguarding drinking water: We’re working state by state across New England to protect our drinking water from toxic threats.

Enforcing the law: We’re holding polluting businesses accountable for the harm they do to our air, water, climate, and communities.