Dear Clean Air Community, This December, I will step down as Executive Director of Clean Air Coalition of Western New York.  In my over 10 years at the forefront of the fight for health, dignity, and justice in our region, I have had the privilege of working alongside our membership, staff and board to hold polluters […]

Big news! We have surpassed our original $60K goal. Thank you so much to our Members and Supporters… we are so grateful to have each of you by our side as we organize for justice. TIME TO GO BIG OR GO HOME. We are increasing our goal to $75K! Join us today so we can […]

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The people of this country – led by communities of color – have fired Donald Trump.  We choose to believe in the power of organizing. Despite egregious voter suppression, the strength of American democracy has been upheld by the millions of people that stood in voting lines for hours on end , and the hard […]

At 2:30am, Donald Trump did what he has threatened to do for months– declare that he will remain President and insist that votes stop being counted even though the ballots of millions of Americans had yet to be tallied. Trump has spent months discrediting our electoral process, lying about mail-in votes and calling them fraudulent. […]

Early voting is open Saturday, October 24, 2020 – Sunday, November 1, 2020 Our communities have dealt with crisis after crisis this year. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the global uprising for Black lives and the ongoing climate crisis, we have been asked time and time again to turn and face ourselves, our neighbors and people […]

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We need your help to turn the concrete crushing site on Peabody St. into a community owned land trust! For a decade residents of Seneca Babcock have fought for their health and quality life. (WATCH this video where members describe their experiences) Battaglia Demolition, which caused tremendous harm to the community closed in 2018.  The […]

Tonawanda Coke is one of the most well known hazardous waste sites in the country. In 2014 the site was recognized as the only company in the history of the United States that was found guilty of 14 criminal accounts of violations of the Clean Air Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the federal […]

Today’s Buffalo News article, featuring stories of some of the brave workers we have been organizing with for the last year and a half, is right that we have reasons to be angry. The $959M of public money that went into renovations, retrofitting, and equipment for Gigafactory 2 was spent with the promise of a […]

The American Axle site located at 1001 East Delavan Ave. Buffalo, NY is known to be significantly contaminated.  Approximately 110 thousand gallons of PCBs are located underneath this site. PCBs, known carcinogens, were found to be leaking into the sewer that flows under community members homes. We joined with residents of the Delavan-Grider community in […]