People have a right to a clean and healthy environment. We collaborate with partners to identify polluters who break environmental and health laws and pressure them to clean up their act.

Making Plastic Polluters Pay

Blog Post | December 12, 2022 | Xuan Quach
My proudest moment last winter was when allies and I were able to thwart attempts by multinational companies to avoid responsibility for plastic pollution in communities and our oceans. We had just...
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UN Shipping Agency Inches Towards 2030 Emission Reduction Goal

Press Release | December 9, 2022
This week’s round of technical talks at the UN’s maritime regulator showed countries are prepared to phase out shipping emissions by 2050. More crucially, support appears to be building...

State of California Signals Need for Additional Measures to Tackle Toxic Pollution for Ocean-Going Vessels

Press Release | December 1, 2022
​​​​​​​ Today, California’s chief climate and air pollution regulator released a report on the status of the state’s world-first regulation to end in-port pollution from fossil fuel vessels. The...

New California Climate Roadmap Includes Clean Energy Propulsion Goal for Ocean-Going Vessels

Press Release | November 17, 2022
SACRAMENTO (November 17, 2022) – Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its final 2022 Scoping Plan, the state’s five-year roadmap for achieving its climate goals. After months of...

Environmental and Industry Organizations Urge Congress to Pass Bill to Zero Out Shipping Pollution 

Press Release | November 17, 2022
Washington, D.C. (November 17, 2022) – Today, a group of 31 environmental and community organizations and 13 industry organizations sent letters to Democratic leadership in Congress calling on them...

Green corridors & ships get attention at COP27

Blog Post | November 15, 2022 | Madeline Rose & Allyson Browne
Hello from Egypt, where we’re on the ground at the U.N. Climate Conference, or COP27 — the world’s most important climate summit — to support crucial new efforts to...