Failure to Act: Letter to Patricia Aho, Commissioner Maine DEP
Sometimes, the failure to act is as harmful as an act itself. Yesterday, I sent a letter to Patricia Aho, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, whose recent failure to act...
View ArticleState of the Union: Our Messy Federalism
At a time when our governors and our President were preparing to address their constituents, CLF was (and is) making news – news that raises a series of enduring questions: In our country, where is the...
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A New Program for the Great Bay Estuary: CLF’s Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper
Me on a recent beautiful day on the Great Bay estuary. I’m thrilled to be launching an important and much needed effort to restore and protect the health of our treasured Great Bay estuary: CLF’s new...
View ArticleParticipate in the Future of Great Bay Estuary: Voice Your Support for Needed...
On Thursday, February 9, the EPA is holding a public hearing on a new Clean Water Act discharge permit for the City of Dover’s sewage treatment plant. The hearing involves a decision that will be...
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Innovative Stormwater Approaches Essential for a Healthy Great Bay
Aerial View of Site - Porous Asphalt Shows as Dark Gray Stormwater pollution continues to be one of the greatest threats to the health of the Great Bay estuary. Fortunately, innovative approaches to...
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Winning the Race for Clean Water
I just paddled in from Waltham and boy are my arms tired…Seriously, I know I am not alone among contestants in the 30th Annual Charles River Watershed Association Run of the Charles canoe, kayak, and...
View ArticleIt’s Politics over Science at Congressional Hearing on Great Bay
On Monday, June 4, Congressman Darrell Issa of California and Congressman Frank Guinta of New Hampshire are hosting a hearing in Exeter entitled “EPA Overreach and the Impact on New Hampshire...
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Why CLF Filed a Lawsuit Against EPA to Restore Alewives to the St. Croix River
Image courtesy of USDA @ flickr. Last week, CLF filed a lawsuit against the EPA and Curtis Spalding, EPA Regional Administrator, Region 1. (You can find a copy of the suit here, and copy of the press...
View ArticlePolitics Trumps Science at Great Bay Hearing
The recent Congressional hearing entitled “EPA Overreach and the Impact on New Hampshire Communities” accomplished one thing – it proved that to some, politics are more important than cleaning up the...
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Déjà vu all over again on the St. Croix River
Photo by Robert F. Bukaty, courtesy of Portland Press Herald Archives As mentioned in prior posts here and here, CLF’s lawsuit to reopen the St. Croix River to alewives resulted in this letter from EPA...
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Septic Systems Slaughter Stripers: CLF Fights Back
The other night, I broiled a gorgeous piece of striped bass for dinner. Though I savored each bite of this healthy, delicious, lean protein, I couldn’t help think of the grim images of other sizeable...
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Actually, We Don’t Love “Dirty Water”
Wikipedia describes the Standells’ 1965 classic “Dirty Water” as “a mock paean to the city of Boston and its then-famously polluted Boston Harbor and Charles River.” Though fans of local sports teams...
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40 Years Later, Would We Pass the Clean Water Act Today?
I love rivers. In fact, I love all things water. And so today I’m celebrating the 40th birthday of the Clean Water Act, perhaps America’s most effective and far-reaching environmental law. I grew up...
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Growing Our Food Without Poisoning the Water: VT Issues Important New Draft...
A manure spreader overloads a St. Albans farm field with manure resulting in a direct discharge to Lake Champlain in 2007. CLF is committed to protecting clean water AND to supporting a healthy farming...
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Important vote will reopen the St. Croix River to Alewives
The bill passed today will restore alewives, a key forage fish, to the St. Croix River, pictured here. Photo: CanadaGood @ flickr We at CLF applaud today’s vote by the Maine state legislature to...
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Long Creek Restoration Project: Making a Difference One Planting at a Time
Staff Attorney Ivy Frignoca helps plant vegetation along Long Creek On July 20, many volunteers including CLF Attorney Ivy Frignoca helped plant vegetation along a tributary of Long Creek which winds...
View ArticleVermont Recommits to the Clean Water Act
Yesterday, EPA sent Vermont’s clean water agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation, a Clean Water Act “Corrective Action Plan,” outlining permitting and enforcement improvements and updates...
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CLF Settlement Maintains Momentum on Stream Cleanup
For more than a decade, CLF has worked to secure the Clean Water Act’s promise of water quality that supports healthy fish populations and is safe for recreation in all the degraded urban streams...
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#ACleanLakeStartsHere
Riding the single chair ski lift to 3637′ summit of General Stark’s Mountain at Mad River Glen is among my life’s great pleasures. The lift pulls you ever upward through the forest at treetop height....
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CLF Bringing Suit to Address Stormwater in Rhode Island
A few weeks ago, CLF initiated a lawsuit that seeks to require EPA to do its job under the Clean Water Act and clean up stormwater pollution in Rhode Island. This lawsuit has the potential to be a very...
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