Join Clean Air to hold the line on pollution in our communities and build power during a second Trump term.

Clean Air is a 501C3 Nonprofit organization so we do not and cannot endorse or promote those running for office. However, we can and will describe how an elected candidate’s policies or actions will affect the health and well being of working class people in WNY, and the conditions of the environment we are a part of.

Let us be clear, a second Donald Trump term is a direct and grave danger to the future ability to protect residents from pollution.

During Trump’s first term, he suspended pollution enforcement on permitted factories and facilities, and Clean Air stepped up and organized with others resulting in the NYS Attorney General joining a Lawsuit against the EPA which forced facilities to comply. All evidence points to an even greater attack on long standing popular bipartisan protections such as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, this time with a more radical partisan Supreme Court having the final say.

Clean Air’s organizing efforts are going to be an essential safeguard during a second Trump term to hold the line on environmental protections locally and across New York State. We are also going to have to organize with each other to create local resilience to blizzards, storms and flooding and extreme heat as federal assistance to help us prepare is likely to be slashed.

In times of crisis, it is our communities that have united to support one another, and Clean Air’s membership program provides a space for everyone to come together in our shared fight for environmental justice.

Become a member today by making a membership contribution and help us fund this fight​.

Through this, you can help fund true grassroots organizing efforts to ensure we keep us safe during what is certain to be a chaotic time. Clean Air members and supporters are also welcome to attend our Happy Hour mixer on November 20​ where we will be celebrating what we have done and reflecting on the crucial work ahead.

Without federal safeguards, we will need to turn our attention in the short term to state level actions – we know we can affect positive change here, because we have already, and we will do so again in the next four years.

With that in mind, we are also asking you to join us tomorrow​ November 7 at 6pm in Lewiston at the NYPA Power Vista at 5777 Lewiston Road, just off the Niagara University Campus. Clean Air is coordinating carpools from downtown Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

NYPA is currently accepting comments on a draft plan to build publicly-owned renewable energy projects​, but the current draft falls far short of what is needed, especially given the regulatory environment we are going to be entering starting in 2025. Please join us – click here to register for the carpools​.

If you are unable to make it, you can also send a comment using this form we launched on Monday​. All comments will be due in January.

With determination,

Chris