Healthier air, water and forests have strong allies in Connecticut.

The Connecticut Fund for the Environment has been protecting and improving Connecticut’s air, land and water since 1978. This is the mission we share with our members.



Our organization is indebted to the efforts of citizens like you.

With your help, we’ve been able to stem multiple threats to our state’s land, air and water. We’ve achieved tangible results through legal and legislative advocacy. These include cutting toxic pollution from new cars by one-third across the state. We permanently protected 15,000 acres of trees that purify our drinking water. Over 1300 people from all walks of life joined us last year and cleaned up tons of trash from 45 miles of our beaches and rivers. But we learned this was not enough to clean up sewage overflows and restore the low oxygen dead zone in the Sound. So we joined forces with towns, engineers and the construction industry and convinced the state to invest in a dozen major sewage projects designed to clean up our rivers and Long Island Sound.

Without your contributions and support, Connecticut would be a very different place.

Today, practical solutions to safeguarding Connecticut's land, air and water require many levels of expertise. Our staff of lawyers, scientists and outreach experts does the tough work of finding solutions that work. We then bring those solutions to our state legislature, state agencies and the courts.

But we cannot clean up beaches, win legislative battles or restore a river without broad support. Please join 4,000 of your fellow citizens who take no more than a day a year to make a key phone call to an elected official or join a beach cleanup day. Click here

Because we remain small and agile, we must form alliances with diverse groups, including businesses, health organizations and community groups.

In 2004, we merged with Save the Sound in order to better protect Long Island Sound and its watershed through advocacy and restoration of critical wildlife habitats.