Coalition for Healthy Ports

World Asthma Day - Truck Count & Press Conference

May 20, 2025 | Elizabeth, NJ

When: NEW RAIN DATE: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Where: 1050 Sherman Ave, (Twin City Warehousing Co.), Elizabeth, NJ

In honor of World Asthma Day, May 6, Clean Water Action is calling all advocates and local community members in Elizabeth to come learn about the connection between

Action Alert: Tell NJ State Legislators to Keep ACT on Track!

Tell NJ legislators to reject A4967/S3817 which would delay the critical Advanced Clean Trucks Rule (ACT) - a life-saving program developed to address the devastating truck pollution that is causing severe respiratory issues for frontline communities in addition to worsening the climate crisis.

Taking a Ride to the Port of Newark

May 11, 2023 | By Tolani Taylor

Port-adjacent communities, like Newark’s Ironbound and South Ward neighborhoods, are home to high concentrations of polluting facilities and have some of the country's highest rates of childhood asthma.

Image of Newark diesel truck traffic by Tolani Taylor

Kim Gaddy and Clean Water Action at a Ports Motorcade Rally for Clean Air & Good Jobs. Photo by Jeanette Mitchell

Motorcade Rally to Demand the Port Authority Ensure Clean Air & Good Jobs Now

July 19, 2016 | By Jenny Vickers

Yesterday, Clean Water Action joined the Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) and City of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka to lead a motorcade rally through the port followed by a rally on the steps of City Hall to demand the Port Authority of NY/NJ ensure clean air and good jobs now. Clean Water Action

From Portland, Oregon to Washington DC: Clean Air and Ports that’s the Ticket

February 23, 2016 | By Amy Goldsmith

By Amy Goldsmith, State Director, Clean Water Action. Follow on Twitter.

Solid as a rock Rooted like a tree I am here Standing strong In my rightful place

This is the song that was sung by community organizers from across the country to kick off the Moving Forward Network’s (MFN) annual meeting in

The Invisible Epidemic: How Diesel Pollution is Suffocating American Families

February 1, 2016 | By Ashley Flach

Clean Water Action co-leads the Coalition for Healthy Ports NY/NJ and has joined the national Moving Forward Network urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to address global climate change caused by diesel emissions at our ports, warehouses, and highways across the country. Together, our goal is to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures to demand #ZeroEmissionsNow - sign the petition here.