by Erin Heaney & Richard Lipsitz Recent years have demonstrated that extreme weather is the new normal. The Australian heat wave, Hurricane Sandy, the Buffalo Snowvember, and the blizzard currently hammering the Eastern seaboard, can all be attributed to climate change. The burning of fossil fuels is the main cause of the climate change crisis. It is a manmade phenomenon […]

Did you know that Tonawanda has the highest concentration of major air pollution sources in New York State? Pollution prevention is one way to reduce emissions into our community. It means eliminating toxic chemicals at the source, instead capturing emissions at the end of a process. Representatives from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and […]

2014 has been an exciting year at Clean Air! We’ve witnessed the sentencing of Tonawanda Coke and won a full investigation after the plant’s explosion, we’ve won a commitment from the state to invest millions of dollars in pollution reducing technology at the Peace Bridge Plaza,  we hosted a very successful Just Transitions Conference to plan our fight for […]

Last week Erie County Legislators approved, by a vote of seven to four, a resolution that takes away Amigone Funeral Home’s right to operate its crematory in the Town of Tonawanda. The County had originally granted permission for it twenty three years ago, but neighbors in recent years had complained of the smell. The resolution […]

Les is the co-founder and director of The Labor Institute and serves a strategic consultant to the Blue Green Alliance. Author of How to Make a Million Dollars and Hour: Why Financial Elites Get Away with Siphoning Off America’s Wealth and many other books. Les will lead a discussion about the ways which Wall St. […]

ACTION ALERT! For years, our members have lived with smells and odors from the Amigone’s crematory. We’re close to ensuring residents will never have to endure this again. We need the Legislators who can vote on the Amigone resolution to vote YES Thursday. We need you to help them make the right decision. If you want […]

Since Battaglia Demolition began operations a little over 10 years ago residents of Peabody St. and the surrounding neighborhood have complained to the State and City of Buffalo regarding dust and soot coming from the facility; loud noise beginning early in the morning from the bulldozers and the concrete crusher; and massive truck traffic that […]

Clean Air is seeking enthusiastic people to join our Volunteer Speakers Bureau! Speakers Bureau Volunteers will help will help spread the message of the important work of Clean Air and encourage people to get involved. Responsibilities Attend Speakers Bureau Training Represent Clean Air at a variety of community events. Maintain an understanding of the history, […]

Koch Brothers Exposed reveals David and Charles Koch for using their billions to buy our government and increase their wealth, at the expense of everyone else. Director Robert Greenwald believes that our system should not be sold to the highest bidder. Greenwald focuses on several news avenues the Koch brother have begun perusing, like suppressing […]

We are pleased to host Josh Lerner, author of Making Democracy Fun at Talking Leaves Books, Monday, Sept. 8th at 7:30pm Lerner is co-founder and executive director of the Participatory Budgeting Project in NYC. For over a decade, he has developed, researched and worked with dozens of community engagement and participatory budgeting processes in North […]