We need DuPont to Do More to reduce harmful emissions in Tonawanda Tonawanda New York has the highest concentration of air regulated facilities in the state. DuPont is a major contributor to this air pollution. The DuPont Yerkes facility is the 3rd largest polluter in Erie County.  According to the most recent data from the EPA’s […]

Community Control Over Public Dollar$ is an informational Exposition on Participatory Budgeting in Buffalo. Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a fairly new way to make decisions about publicly funded projects. Participatory Budgeting gives ordinary people decision-making power over real money. PB is already working in over 1,500 municipalities around the world. It includes everyone in the community […]

“We have to move past the point where your zip code determines the quality of your life,”  stated Virginia Golden, Clean Air member in Slate Magazine in today’s article, America’s Unfair Rules of the Road: How our transportation system discriminates against the most vulnerable, sheds light on people living in Buffalo, New Orleans, Detroit, Johnson County […]

by Erin Heaney & Richard Lipsitz Recent years have demonstrated that extreme weather is the new normal. The Australian heat wave, Hurricane Sandy, the Buffalo Snowvember, and the blizzard currently hammering the Eastern seaboard, can all be attributed to climate change. The burning of fossil fuels is the main cause of the climate change crisis. It is a manmade phenomenon […]

Did you know that Tonawanda has the highest concentration of major air pollution sources in New York State? Pollution prevention is one way to reduce emissions into our community. It means eliminating toxic chemicals at the source, instead capturing emissions at the end of a process. Representatives from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and […]

2014 has been an exciting year at Clean Air! We’ve witnessed the sentencing of Tonawanda Coke and won a full investigation after the plant’s explosion, we’ve won a commitment from the state to invest millions of dollars in pollution reducing technology at the Peace Bridge Plaza,  we hosted a very successful Just Transitions Conference to plan our fight for […]

Last week Erie County Legislators approved, by a vote of seven to four, a resolution that takes away Amigone Funeral Home’s right to operate its crematory in the Town of Tonawanda. The County had originally granted permission for it twenty three years ago, but neighbors in recent years had complained of the smell. The resolution […]

Les is the co-founder and director of The Labor Institute and serves a strategic consultant to the Blue Green Alliance. Author of How to Make a Million Dollars and Hour: Why Financial Elites Get Away with Siphoning Off America’s Wealth and many other books. Les will lead a discussion about the ways which Wall St. […]

ACTION ALERT! For years, our members have lived with smells and odors from the Amigone’s crematory. We’re close to ensuring residents will never have to endure this again. We need the Legislators who can vote on the Amigone resolution to vote YES Thursday. We need you to help them make the right decision. If you want […]

Since Battaglia Demolition began operations a little over 10 years ago residents of Peabody St. and the surrounding neighborhood have complained to the State and City of Buffalo regarding dust and soot coming from the facility; loud noise beginning early in the morning from the bulldozers and the concrete crusher; and massive truck traffic that […]