The Center for Progressive Reform, Assateague Coastal Trust, Chesapeake Legal Alliance, Environmental Integrity Project, and Waterkeepers Chesapeake comprise the Initiative for Change on the Lower Eastern Shore. The partnership — originally founded as the E3 Coalition — combines legal, regulatory, and policy expertise, along with community partnerships and strong research and data analysis skills. All of this expertise enables us to work together to achieve our goal of reducing pollution from industrial agriculture on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore. Our collaborative formed, in part, in response to neighborhood groups and local coalitions that sprang up to challenge recent factory farm expansions and encroachment into their communities. Our efforts are aligned with community priorities and ultimately aim to protect and improve public and environmental health on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore.
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