Clean Air.
Good Jobs.
Healthy Communities.
A bi-state coalition organizing for zero-emission, worker protections, and environmental justice at the ports of New York and New Jersey.
Cleaner Air
Reducing emissions for healthier communities.
Good Jobs
Creating quality jobs in a green economy.
Stronger Ports
Building sustainable, resilient port operations.
Better Future
Working together for a clean and equitable future.
OUR MISSION
The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest port complex on the East Coast — and the communities living closest to it have spent decades carrying the public health costs. Childhood asthma rates among the highest in the country. Premature deaths from diesel exposure. Workers earning poverty wages to keep the goods moving.
The Coalition for Healthy Ports has been organizing to change that since 2007. We are a bi-state alliance of environmental and environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith leaders, truck drivers, and community advocates working across New York and New Jersey for clean air, zero emissions, worker protections, economic justice, and community empowerment at the ports and throughout the logistics industry.
The mission is simple. Healthy ports — for the workers inside them, the residents around them, and the region that depends on them.
Wins That Move the Region
Real policy. Real outcomes. Real accountability — built by coalition, sustained by community.
FIRST
in the nation to require permit denials for cumulative pollution impacts — NJ EJ Law (S232), 2020
FIRST
on the East Coast to adopt the Advanced Clean Trucks rule — NJ, 2021
FIRST
city with an Environmental Justice & Cumulative Impacts Ordinance — Newark, 2016
$3.75B
in monetized health damages from diesel exhaust in NJ in 2023
HEALTHY PORTS
Organizing for clean air, good jobs, and healthy communities at the Ports of New York and New Jersey.
The work doesn't stop. Neither do we.
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Latest from the Coalition
Press releases, campaign updates, and coverage from across the region.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Environment America
MAY 2025
Clean Water Action