Send a Letter to the Public Service Commission – Make Industrial Data Centers Pay Their Fair Share!

You may recall that in Governor Hochul’s 2025 State of the State, she introduced the idea of a policy that would require private sector “hyperscale” industrial data centers “bring their own generation” to help rein in rising electrical rates. This would be a wise policy – as the Public Service Commission itself notes, “As of […]

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March-April 2026 Monthly Updates: Register Today for our Annual Dinner on Thursday April 30!

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600 Colvin Woods Parkway – Next Steps

We are thrilled to share that the first phase of our campaign focusing on the Customs and Border Patrol station at 600 Colvin Woods has come to a successful close. We set out with some very basic goals in mind, all with Q1 of 2026 in mind – Resist mass deportations in Tonawanda and WNY […]

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Solar and Battery Storage for Tonawanda Coke, Not Data Centers!

In case you missed it, the Buffalo News recently covered the plans for developing a 300 MW data center at the former Tonawanda Coke site for Artificial Intelligence. We urge clicking through and reading the excellent coverage. For close to a decade now, we’ve been warning of the threats that unregulated data centers present to […]

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Goodbye From Kiera

Kiera Quinlivan joined us in summer 2022 as an intern, and has been supporting us in a part time basis since, coordinating our comms. She’s currently in graduate school at Columbia University and ready to move onto the next stage in her career – we’re immensely grateful to her for all the work she has […]

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February-March 2026 Monthly Updates: WE’RE HIRING! New Member Orientation, General Meeting and so much more

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We are hiring! Coalition Community Organizer – open until filled

We are hiring a Coalition Community Organizer to coordinate and run the various community-coalition projects that Clean Air is supporting! Please apply and share widely – the full job description and details for how to apply are available now at https://www.cacwny.org/get-involved/jobs-internships/  

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“What’s in a name?” Some Thoughts from Bridge Rauch, our Environmental Justice Organizer for our Tonawanda Just Transition Teams

We’ve had a couple of inquiries about why opposing mass detainment and deportation operations are a Clean Air issue, so we felt we should clear the air with some explanation. First of all, we urge you to come to one of our General Meetings or meet with a Clean Air organizer to learn a bit […]

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January-February 2026 Monthly Updates: 2026 Annual Meeting – Wednesday February 25

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