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We Can't Afford the Dirty Power Scam
President Trump and Acting Administrator Wheeler are ditching a carefully crafted program that addressed the climate crisis. They are putting our health at risk, and our future, by catering to their fossil fuel industry cronies. This is bad attempt to prop-up 20th century energy companies while trying to slow the transition to clean energy.
Important victories in Massachusetts, but much more work ahead of us.
The Massachusetts legislative session ended on July 31st. Overall, it was a controversial session that has been characterized as much by what didn’t happen as by what did. The two environmental actions taken by the legislature this session were environmental justice funding in the state budget, and a compromise clean energy bill. They also passed an environmental bond bill, but it is not clear how much it will raise and what impacts it will have.
The environmental justice language in the budget is a huge win in Massachusetts. The budget requires Baker’s environmental office to hire a full time
Introducing Val Bak, Clean Water Action's Connecticut intern extraordinaire
Val is inspired by being in nature – this is what drives her work to protect our environment.
Kinder Morgan is Down for the Count. We're Fighting Forward!
UPDATE: Join us at the Massachusetts State House 5/3 for a hearing and rally.* RSVP here.
We are at an incredible moment. Yesterday, Kinder Morgan announced they are suspending work on their massive, multi-billion dollar fracked gas pipeline proposal. This is a huge victory for New England, for Clean Water Action and for our many partners who have fought the project for years.
Clean Water Action has organized for progressive energy policy, advancing the solutions to our power transition away from fossil fuels. Working with groups like Toxics Action Center and Better Future Project, we
Just Transition For Coal Communities
From the beginning of my internship here at Clean Water Action (CWA) talk has circulated throughout the office about the Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, MA, and the revolution that can begin at this site. From just the topic itself I was already interested in not only learning more about the plant, its history and what it has the potential to become but I was also extremely excited to be a part of the change that will inevitably come to this site.
I was given the opportunity to go and visit the Brayton Point site, and weeks prior to my visit to Somerset, I was charged with the duty to