The Boston Women’s Fund has been a long-time supporter of the Chelsea Collaborative’s City-wide Tenants Association.  In working with the Collaborative, we were recently informed about some other important work they are doing in the community.  The Chelsea Collaborative is working on an important issue to fight the transport of dangerous ethanol through their community.  Global Oil located in Revere, MA is proposing to bring freight trains carrying ethanol to their facilities along the Chelsea River.  Ethanol is an alcohol that is mixed with gasoline for sale to gas stations and is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid that burns at extremely high temperatures.  Alcohol-resistant foam is necessary to extinguish ethanol fires along with specially trained fire-fighters. Continue reading Chelsea Collaborative Fighting Environmental Injustice →