Bridge, our Tonawanda-area Environmental Justice Organizer, attended the National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2024 Creating Change Conference in New Orleans from January 16-20. Here’s a few of their reflections on the experience. Organizing can be hard and at times disheartening – and, I should say, I have been feeling that more than usual lately. It’s easy […]

We want to give thanks to our Just Transition Organizer Phil Gambini who has moved on to a new chapter after giving us 2 incredible years of his passion, energy and care to our movement. We are proud of what Phil has accomplished and wish him well on his journey of full time education in […]

Join us on Wednesday January 24 from 5:30-7pm on Zoom for our first General Meeting of the year! 2024 will be a tumultuous year, with all eyes on the November election, and everyone is already feeling the related stress – join us as we discuss how organizing for environmental justice is a means to combat […]

Our friends at Heated, an online newsletter for “people pissed off about the climate crisis,” have some staggering news. They found that a chemical disaster occurred nearly every day last year in the U.S. There were at least 322 hazardous chemical incidents in the U.S. in 2023, Heated found after consulting data from the Coalition […]

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Over the break, New York’s Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York, declined to hear an appeal from NRG, the owner of the former Huntley generating station, in their push to overturn a lower court ruling in favor of the Town of Tonawanda’s Eminent Domain claim for the property. This is a big […]

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The preliminary draft of the proposed Alternatives Analysis for 3875 River Road, which constitutes the bulk of the acreage of the former Tonawanda Coke site, is now available for public review! An “Alternatives Analysis” is essentially a document that lays out the different pathways for contamination clean up under consideration, with considerations for pros and […]

The Clean Air Coalition builds power by developing grassroots leaders who organize their communities to run and win environmental justice and public health campaigns in Western New York. Campaigns are created at Clean Air when they are brought forward by residents that are directly affected by a public health or environmental justice issue in their […]