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For Immediate Release: Ten Zero Waste Ideas for the Next Governor of Massachusetts
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 Massachusetts Gov.-elect Maura Healey and her administration have a huge opportunity to address one of the most pressing environmental and public health issues today — our waste crisis. With Black Friday upon us and shopping season ahead, it’s a good time to remember that “Reduce” is job number one. Here is […]
23 November 2022 Read More
Press Statement from Zero Waste MA on New Department of Environmental Protection Waste Bans
For Immediate release:Monday, October 31, 2022 Contact:Jake O’Neill, Conservation Law Foundation, 617-850-1709Leigh-Anne Cole, Community Action Works,(617) 721-2858, leigh-anne@communityactionworks.orgJanet Domenitz, MASSPIRG, 617-308-9109, janet.domenitz@masspirg.org Statement: With stronger regulations, Massachusetts takes step to reduce waste disposal BOSTON – With new waste ban regulations set to take effect on November 1, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) takes […]
31 October 2022 Read More
New Report: “The Need to Enforce: Waste Ban Regulations in Massachusetts”
For Immediate Release: Thursday, September 8, 2022 Contacts: Leigh-Anne Cole, Community Action Works, leigh-anne@communityactionworks.orgJanet Domenitz, MASSPIRG, Janet.Domenitz@masspirg.orgJake O’Neill, Conservation Law Foundation, joneill@clf.orgElizabeth Saunders, Clean Water Action, esaunders@cleanwater.org Coalition calls for more resources devoted to getting banned materials out of landfills and incineratorsBOSTON –According to a new report issued Thursday by Zero Waste Massachusetts, two million […]
08 September 2022 Read More
Rhode Island Governor signs new law banning PFAS in food packaging
For immediate release: 7/6/2022Contact: Leigh-Anne Cole, leigh-anne@communityactionworks.org, 617-721-2858Deirdre Cummings, dcummings@masspirg.org, 617-747-4319 BOSTON- Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee signed a new law last night banning PFAS in food packaging, becoming the 9th state to do so. Public health, community and environmental organizations urged Massachusetts legislators to do the same by passing the pending bill to ban PFAS in food […]
06 July 2022 Read More
Fighting landfills with zero waste solutions
In New Hampshire’s North Country, community leaders have fought one landfill after another. With every landfill proposal or expansion, neighbors have come together to fight it. Neighbors know a bigger change is needed to stop trash from across the region and out of state from flooding the North Country and to keep communities safe from […]
06 May 2021 Read More
To close landfills and incinerators, we need to push for zero waste
Community leaders in Saugus and Revere, Massachusetts, are fighting for zero waste because, right now, our trash could end up in their backyard. For years, our partners at Alliance for Health and Environment in Saugus and Revere have been leading the fight against a dangerous trash incinerator and dump in their neighborhood. The 5.7 million […]
14 October 2020 Read More
These pipelines will never be built
A win against fracked gas is a win for all of us, and we have some great news to celebrate. With your support, community leaders in New Hampshire have stopped the Granite Bridge fracked gas pipeline and the Lebanon-Hanover pipeline and gas depot! Fighting a fracked gas pipeline means years of sustained action: organizing rallies, […]
17 August 2020 Read More
One river, a community of leaders, and corporate pollution
For years, the General Electric Company (GE) polluted the Berkshires in Massachusetts with PCBs before the toxics were banned by the EPA. And for years since, community leaders have been fighting for a full cleanup of the Housatonic River that holds GE accountable for that pollution. Now, you can watch a short film telling the […]
22 May 2020 Read More
In Vermont and beyond, landfills are not the answer
Coventry is a beautiful town in northeastern Vermont, bordering the pristine Lake Memphremagog that stretches into Canada. It’s also home to the state’s only active landfill, and when that landfill was set to expand, neighbors raised the alarm. The landfill’s plan would likely lead to toxic waste contaminating the lake, which is the drinking water […]
08 January 2020 Read More
Stop this incinerator from making a comeback
More than 10 years ago, a biomass incinerator was proposed in Springfield, MA—the asthma capital of the U.S. For almost 10 years, activists led by Arise for Social Justice have kept it from being built through hard-fought organizing and diligent watch-dogging. Why? Because biomass incineration—which can mean burning wood and other natural products—would only exacerbate asthma by making the […]
21 May 2019 Read More
Vermont Governor signs PFAS protection law
Regulates five toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water May 16, 2019 (MONTPELIER, VT) – Conservation Law Foundation, Community Action Works and Vermont Natural Resources Council and Vermont Public Interest Research Group released the following statement today after Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed a bill to establish a drinking water standard for five toxic Per- and […]
17 May 2019 Read More
New Study: Multiple Dangerous Pesticides found in food made and sold by Kroger, Walmart, Costco and Albertsons
Boston, MA – Testing released today found store and name brand foods produced and sold by the top four U.S. food retailers, Kroger (NYSE:KR), Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Costco (NYSE:COST) and Albertsons — purchased in cities across the country by Friends of the Earth and allies, including Community Action Works, contain residues of toxic pesticides linked […]
06 February 2019 Read More
Environmental, public health groups decry dismissal of landfill pollution case
WORCESTER—On October 1, a federal district court judge dismissed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of the Southbridge (Massachusetts) Landfill, sparking outrage from local residents and environmental organizations who allege that the landfill has polluted private wells and surrounding wetlands with toxic pollutants. “We think the judge got this 100% wrong,” said Claire Miller […]
05 October 2018 Read More
Calling for safe alternatives to toxic pesticides in Vermont
Community Action Works has been organizing for years with residents in the Champlain Valley to stop pesticide spraying that jeopardizes our health. This summer, as toxic chemicals are sprayed out of the back of pick-up trucks along town roads by homes, farms and waterways, we’re joining our partners at the Environmental and Natural Resources Law […]
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