Grant Program Environment

To conduct an education and technical assistance project in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island that will pool the renewable energy purchases of large businesses, local governments, colleges and universities.

To work with partner organizations in up to fourteen states to achieve a 75 percent reduction in US mobile diesel particulate emissions by 2020.

To support CLF’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which seeks to substantially reduce global warming pollution from power plants in nine northeastern states from current levels by 2020. CLF will seek to convince governors to adopt strong rules…

To move major automobile manufacturers to use cleaner and safer forms of plastic in production processes by educating consumers about potential hazards associated with a range of chemicals inside cars; and to encourage policymakers and consumers to demand automobile production…

To train at least one full-time aspiring leader in the skills, strategies and issues s/he needs to launch a career in the conservation field; provide grassroots support to campaigns; and inspire trainees and volunteers to deepen their commitment to protecting…

To increase public awareness of preventable precursors to developmental disabilities, with an emphasis on exposures to hazardous chemicals in the environment; and to foster advocacy within the learning disabilities community in order to reduce those exposures.

To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and corporate polluters accountable for the Penobscot River’s severe contamination from mercury and other pollutants.

To win concrete state policy reforms that will significantly reduce global warming pollution from the two largest contributing sectors in the region–motor vehicles and power plants; and to continue to broaden and deepen public support for abating climate change.

To facilitate changes in medical practice so that information on preventing toxic exposures is routinely provided to parents of pediatric patients and to obstetrics patients; and to begin a report on connections between environmental exposures and neurological impacts at later…

To improve the design of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; to assist nine states in adopting the rules needed to implement the regional program; and to provide technical assistance to state officials and others to harmonize the carbon program with…