Emily Terrana (she/her) has been a member of Clean Air since 2015, serving in a number of leadership roles throughout the organization, including being a member of the Tonawanda Coke campaign team. Emily is a Buffalo girl through and through, growing up in the working-class neighborhood of Riverside with her extended family and community. Before […]

This post comes from the Tesla team at Clean Air. Hello, We’re a team of former employees of Tesla’s Gigafactory 2 in South Buffalo. We represent a much larger group of current and former Tesla workers. We’re here because we have all faced hostility, abuse, and discrimination while working at Tesla, and we’re fighting for […]

This post comes from Jarrett and Diane, of Diane’s Land. Diane’s Land is a brand new project of Clean Air, founded this summer, but it’s been in the works for a long time. Residents on Peabody Street in Seneca Babcock spent years organizing against Battaglia Demolition, an illegally operating cement crushing facility that filled our […]

My name is Linnea and I work for Clean Air. I come from a working class family from Niagara Falls. I am the youngest of six children — I have five older sisters (and thirteen nieces and nephews, with the fourteenth arriving any day now!). I grew up in my dad’s childhood home, with stories […]

Linnea Brett first joined Clean Air as a canvasser in 2014, returning in 2018 as an organizer. The youngest of six, from a working class family from Niagara Falls, Linnea studied at the University at Buffalo, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy, and a Master of Urban Planning, specializing in Environmental and Land Use […]

Hello! This post comes directly from Clean Air’s Membership Team… Sue Kelley, Gary Schulenberg, Rob Walsh, Jenn Carman, and Julia White. Three years ago, we established our Membership Team. Well, we started as the Fundraising Team, but quickly decided that “fundraising” really didn’t encapsulate or do justice to the work that we were actually doing. […]

Over the next few weeks, Clean Air’s staff and Clean Air’s campaign teams will be re-introducing ourselves… who we are, our beliefs and visions, and why we wake up each day and organize for a better world. My name is Julia, and I’m Clean Air’s Grassroots Development Organizer. Ten years ago, I walked door-to-door talking […]

Over the next few weeks, Clean Air’s staff and Clean Air’s campaign teams will be re-introducing ourselves… who we are, our beliefs and visions, and why we wake up each day and organize for a better world. Julia White Grassroots Development Organizer Julia joined the team at Clean Air in 2018 as the Grassroots Development […]

Dear Clean Air Community, This December, I will step down as Executive Director of Clean Air Coalition of Western New York.  In my over 10 years at the forefront of the fight for health, dignity, and justice in our region, I have had the privilege of working alongside our membership, staff and board to hold polluters […]

Big news! We have surpassed our original $60K goal. Thank you so much to our Members and Supporters… we are so grateful to have each of you by our side as we organize for justice. TIME TO GO BIG OR GO HOME. We are increasing our goal to $75K! Join us today so we can […]

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