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Join us at NYPA’s Public Hearing on November 7 at at 6pm at the NYPA Power Vista at 5777 Lewiston Road in Lewiston NY! Carpools from Buffalo available. NY is off track from our goals for a just transition off of fossil fuel-based energy onto renewables. In part, this is due to the rise in […]

We are recruiting four people for three-year board terms, with terms starting in February 2025. Please reach out to chris@cacwny.org to learn more!  

On August 29, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health officially published the Decision Document for the large brownfield portion of the former Tonawanda Coke site at 3875 River Road, also known as site C915353 on DEC’s InfoLocator, also known as the Riverview Innovation and Technology Campus. After Tonawanda Coke’s bankruptcy, the site […]

Overview In 2019, following an escalation in weather events exacerbated by climate change and growing pressure from fenceline and frontline communities (IE, communities directly adjacent to current or former industrial facilities and communities affected first and worst by climate change), NYS passed sweeping and paradigm shifting legislation, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or […]

This summer the Clean Air Coalition is a host site for the Cornell High Road Fellowship program – Sia Gu is a 2025 expected graduate who has been working with us on a number of research projects, and will be wrapping up her fellowship with us at the end of July. The following is an […]

Our American Axle/Delavan-Grider Environmental Justice Organizer Cindy Stroud recently attended a training retreat on Cultural Organizing at the Highlander Center. The following are her reflections on her experience – if you a Clean Air member and are interested in this training, there is one more class planned the week of July 31 – reach out […]

As we have been openly stating for almost a year now, NYS DEC has a significant backlog of Title V air permits and other permits that has developed over time since the staffing and program funding freezes and cuts that Governor Cuomo put in place at state agencies in response to the 2008 Financial Crisis. We […]

In today’s rulings the Supreme Court sided with corporate oligarchs against every single American, especially residents of environmental justice communities. The conservative majority of the court ruled 6-3 to end what is known as the Chevron Deference  We wish we could say we are surprised, but in all honesty, a ruling of this kind this […]