About Stories Blog Newsroom DONATE OUR FOCUS SERVING NEW ENGLAND MAKING AN IMPACT HOW YOU CAN HELP IStock Home / Our Focus / Focus Areas / Climate Change Climate Change CLF is fighting for a healthy climate and resilient communities across New England. Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. Its impacts will be felt around the world, and we here in New England will not be immune. Our Solutions Climate change is not a new challenge for CLF. We’ve been working to address its root causes for decades and have played a part in critical milestones to curb its progress. We helped design the country’s first cap-and-trade program, shut down dirty, outdated coal plants across the region, and pushed for the development of new, clean energy projects. Today, we are: BUILDING OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE: We’re pushing for policies and projects that boost low-cost locally made clean energy, save families and businesses money, and create jobs. AVOIDING THE NATURAL GAS TRAP: We’re stopping unnecessary new natural gas pipelines and making sure new gas power plants don’t sink our region’s climate goals. CUTTING CARBON: We’re fighting to shut down New England’s remaining dirty coal plants that harm our health and pollute our climate. And we’re saying yes to innovative ideas that will slash our region’s climate-warming emissions. Our Vision We’re working towards a New England powered by affordable, homemade energy, with a thriving economy built on innovation and invention… a New England where our communities are healthy and safe and our environment fortified against the impacts of our changing climate. This is the future CLF is fighting to create. Tell Congress: We Want Bold Climate Action Now Now is Our Chance to Be Bold Take Action Join us Share this Page The Latest 11/18/21 PRESS RELEASE Massachusetts Pauses Transportation and Climate Initiative 11/18/21 BLOG What’s The Big Deal About This Global Climate Conference? 11/12/21 BLOG Did You Know The Landscapes of New England Can Act As Natural Climate Solutions? More news CLF in Action Zero by 2050 Transforming Transportation Putting ExxonMobil On Trial More campaigns What We're Up Against Climate change is taking the very things that we all love most about New England and beginning to turn them on their head. Bigger and more erratic storms are dumping more polluted stormwater into the waters where we swim, fish, and play. More intense and frequent flooding is putting our coastal communities at risk. Increased acid in our oceans is eating away at the shells of our lobsters and oysters – potentially devastating local fishing economies. And warming temperatures could shift and compromise growing seasons for core New England crops, from maple syrup to blueberries. As a region, we’re not yet ready to deal with many of these impacts. With coal and nuclear on the way out, our energy system is on track to be dominated by natural gas rather than locally made renewables that can drive a clean energy economy. Our local food system, while growing, still supplies barely half of what we consume. Our sewer systems were not built to withstand today’s intensity of storm and floodwaters. And the laws we do have on the books, such as Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act, have yet to be fully implemented and enforced. To truly effect meaningful action on climate change at the local, state, and regional level, it will take a large toolbox of skills in the law, policy, and the markets – the very skills that CLF has spent 50 years developing and honing. Shutterstock YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! $25 $50 $75 $100 Other DONATE JOIN THE FIGHT About Our Team How You Can Help Employment & Internships Privacy & Commenting Policies Updates Newsroom Action Center Conservation Matters Publications Contact CLF 617.350.0990 e-info@clf.org Press Inquiries: joneill@clf.org 62 Summer St Boston, MA 02110 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Youtube RSS Copyright ©2021 Conservation Law Foundation