Partner Program

Environment Northeast (ENE) is a nonprofit organization that researches and advocates innovative policies that tackle environmental challenges while promoting sustainable economies. ENE is at the forefront of state and regional efforts to combat global warming. It conducts extensive research and analysis to identify and advance policies that: Make dramatic changes to the way states use and purchase energy, clean up air pollution, and help protect the region's forests and other resources.

ENE's comprehensive Climate Change Roadmap for New England and Eastern Canada is the first-ever regional strategy for achieving a 75 percent reduction in carbon emissions by mid-century.

ENE is a leader in systematically developing practical, detailed solutions for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases in the Northeast. Many of the steps it recommends in its regional Roadmap have been incorporated into comprehensive energy reform legislation that has either passed, or is under current consideration, in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maine.

ENE is also exploring the unique role of the region's vast forests in climate change. Its original research in this area includes a study conducted in cooperation with the Maine Forest Service to assess the potential of forests to absorb carbon and also to support emerging carbon offsets markets, and also an unprecedented assessment of the greenhouse gas impact of a proposed development for Maine's North Woods.

ENE's transportation work has focused on cleaning up air pollution in urban areas. It helped build coalitions of health and community groups to press for rules and funding to significantly reduce citizen's exposure to harmful emissions from school buses and other heavy-duty diesel vehicles.