Dear CRWC Member:
Tomorrow the Vermont Senate will take up an historic vote on whether to extend the operating license of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear plant beyond 2012, the expiration of its original 40-year license. There’s no better time than right now to remind your Legislator about CRWC’s issues with Vermont Yankee – their [...]

Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Council Members help save Endangered Species Act
We did it! CRWC members signed letters and sent emails asking President Obama to rescind last-minute changes to the Endangered Species Act pushed through by the Bush Administration at the eleventh hour. Those ESA rule changes would have scuttled the science-based consultation policy that’s [...]

ACTION ALERT: Endangered Species Act under attack

A few minutes of your time could help preserve America’s natural heritage.  The Endangered Species Act, the country’s landmark legislation that helped rescue the bald eagle, the peregrine falcon, the grizzly bear and black footed ferret–the Act that is currently protecting rare plants, endangered frogs, migratory sturgeon, butterflies [...]

Dear CRWC Member:

The Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge—spanning the entire four-state Connecticut River watershed—is currently developing its first Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP). The CCP will establish management goals and objectives for the Refuge’s wildlife management, habitat protection, education, and public use programs for the next 15 years. Inadequate staffing [...]

Dear CRWC Member,

Last night CRWC staff, board, and members joined other community members to express concerns over Holyoke’s wastewater discharge permit.  Every year Holyoke, Springfield and Chicopee, MA discharge over one billion gallons of sewage-containing overflow directly into the Connecticut River, causing significant pollution downstream of the Holyoke Dam.  CRWC members and allies [...]