Attention Residents of Tonawanda, We NEED Your Insight! Tonawanda’s industrial zone has the highest concentration of air-regulated facilities in the state. Within a two mile area, the town had 53 facilities. Two major interstate highways intersect int he community and one holds a tollbooth were congestion is common. The town has 17 hazardous wastes sites, […]

For the last two years the City of Buffalo has been preparing a new zoning ordinance. This new ordinance includes laws that  govern where certain types of industry is allowed to be placed. Come learn how the Government decides where to place industry and dirty diesel bus lots. On Tuesday, May 22nd we will host […]

On Tuesday, April 10th The Clean Air Coalition, Buffalo First and the Ken-Ton Chamber of Commerce have come together to host the Triple Bottom Line Business Mixer. The event is part of the Tonawanda CARE Collaborative. “Triple bottom line” was first coined in 1994 by author and entrepreneur John Elkington. Elkington’s argument was that companies […]

Come celebrate Earth Day with us on Thursday, April 19th at 7PM at the Brighton Place Library (999 Brighton Road, Tonawanda NY 14150) with our screening of You Are Where You Live. Some challenges are too difficult to face alone. The film You Are Where You Live by Vince Mistretta chronicles the story of The […]

Last week, the Commissioner of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation announced that the two air monitors in Tonawanda will continue to operate until the end of 2013. This announcement comes after weeks of hard work by the Coalition’s dedicated membership. The two air monitors in Tonawanda were installed after Clean Air Coalition members did […]

On Thursday, March 8th, the NYS DEC will hold a public hearing in their office on Michigan Avenue at 3pm concerning a new ruling for power plants and other power generating facilities, new and existing. Article X of the Power NY Act will have a stronger Environmental Justice component taking into consideration factors that the […]

Join us on March 20th at 7PM and find out what toxic chemicals are stored in your neighborhood on the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Database. TRI is a government-mandated database that houses information on what chemicals are stored in the manufacturing facilities near you!

Have a few hours the last Monday of the month? We need you! On the last Monday of every month from 1-4pm folks meet up at the Clean Air Coalition Headquarters (at 341 Delaware Ave- the big church on the corner of West Tupper and Delaware) to help with mailings, research, turn out calls, or […]

The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York announced the second year of the Lois Gibbs Fellowship, a selective, 7-month program that provides a diverse set of emerging citizen leaders with the tools and training to build sustained political will to improve the environment and health in Western New York neighborhoods. The Lois Gibbs Fellowship […]

The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) continually measures levels of pollutants in the air.  The Clean Air Coalition uses the data from these monitors to keep polluters in check, and ensure that emissions are kept within a legal range. The two DEC air monitors in Tonawanda are located in the Brookside Terrance neighborhood and right […]