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Earlier this week NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner, Basil Seggos, announced he would be stepping down. Seggos has served in this role since 2015. Seggos’ legacy is a mixed one, as journalist Peter Mantius notes. At our office we have a cardboard cut out of Seggos that we used in a public meeting in […]

Members of the Buffalo Building and Construction Trades Council rallied last week at the Wood & Brooks construction site on Kenmore Ave in Tonawanda to bring attention to a loophole in statewide prevailing wage laws. The law currently includes exemptions for projects that receive historic tax credits or brownfield tax credits. In related news, the New […]

  We are excited to provide our members the opportunity to make their voices heard by voting on the 2024 Slate of Candidates for the Board of Directors. Answers from the Board Candidate Application are listed below so you can get to know our candidates. Cast your vote by our Annual Meeting on February 27. […]

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Bridge, our Tonawanda-area Environmental Justice Organizer, attended the National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2024 Creating Change Conference in New Orleans from January 16-20. Here’s a few of their reflections on the experience. Organizing can be hard and at times disheartening – and, I should say, I have been feeling that more than usual lately. It’s easy […]

We want to give thanks to our Just Transition Organizer Phil Gambini who has moved on to a new chapter after giving us 2 incredible years of his passion, energy and care to our movement. We are proud of what Phil has accomplished and wish him well on his journey of full time education in […]

Join us on Wednesday January 24 from 5:30-7pm on Zoom for our first General Meeting of the year! 2024 will be a tumultuous year, with all eyes on the November election, and everyone is already feeling the related stress – join us as we discuss how organizing for environmental justice is a means to combat […]

Our friends at Heated, an online newsletter for “people pissed off about the climate crisis,” have some staggering news. They found that a chemical disaster occurred nearly every day last year in the U.S. There were at least 322 hazardous chemical incidents in the U.S. in 2023, Heated found after consulting data from the Coalition […]

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