We are an ad hoc coalition engaged in advocacy on the local, state and national level on a range of environmental and environmental justice issues. We aim to build connections between communities needing legal and scientific resources and volunteers who can provide those resources. Our ad hoc grassroots network includes a wide range of volunteer professionals as well as law students and individuals with a variety of skills. Our network consists of volunteers and non-profit organizations.

We aim to provide rapid and directed strategy advice and where possible to provide professional legal and scientific services to communities and non-profit organizations seeking to get results in the legal, public relations and political arenas. We are action oriented and seek to empower local communities and grassroots organizations by providing information about strategies and tactics that can be employed to ensure outcomes that are protective of natural resources and human health.

Our network includes: Jones River Watershed Association, Connecticut River Watershed Council, Taunton River Watershed Alliance, Save the Bay/RI, Trout Unlimited/MA-RI Council and Greater Boston Chapter, Concerned Citizens of Russell, Concerned Citizens of Franklin County, MassAudubon, Green Berkshires, Inc., Massachusetts Forest Watch, Massachusetts Environmental Energy Alliance, ARISE for Social Justice, Powder River Resource Council, and individuals across the country.

For over fifteen years, we have been actively engaged in legal efforts to ensure the protection and restoration of aquatic ecosystems throughout Southeastern Massachusetts.

EcoLaw staff played a critical role in ensuring the 2009 designation of the Taunton River as a federal Wild and Scenic River and in ensuring the conservation of fragile ecosystems throughout Southeastern Massachusetts.

We are currently engaged in confronting the biomass industry locally and nationwide to spotlight the "water footprint" of these and to prevent the allocation of water resources to these incinerators that are being green washed as clean and green sources of electricity generation.

Forests and Land Protection: Supporting advocacy for land protection in Southeastern Massachusetts.

Working to protect state lands from forest clearcuts.

We are engaged in education, advocacy, and outreach on these issues:

- Opposing renewable energy projects that use incineration as a means of producing electricity on the grounds that these incinerators make global warming worse by emitting more carbon dioxide per unit of electricity generated than coal, and because they dry up rivers and burn forests

- Changes to state Renewable Portfolio Standards to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that use incineration of wood, trash, construction and demolition debris and landfill gas as a means to generate renewable electricity

- Enforcement of federal and state laws governing water allocation and water pollution in Massachusetts

- Protecting state and federal parks and forests from destructive logging practices and inappropriate logging and siting of wood burning biomass plants and industrial scale wind projects