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Massachusetts Legislature Rejects Governor Baker's Attempts to Weaken Climate Bill
In a saga that has been playing out since the close of 2020, this week, both chambers of the Massachusetts legislature passed the Next-Generation Roadmap Climate bill with its vital environmental justice reforms intact! Thank you to Clean Water's members and allies for all the calls, letters, emails, and tweets that helped push our legislative leaders to stand firm. A particular shout out to our youngest members for speaking up for their generation who will be most impacted by our actions today to fight the climate crisis -- we all need to act urgently with YOUR future in mind. We're grateful
Women's History Month - Recognizing The Women Who Inspire Us
In recognition of Women’s History Month, Clean Water Action is thrilled to raise the voices of strong women in the environmental justice field who continue to encourage us to take action and better our communities.
For a hot V-day, hold the flame retardants
For Valentine’s Day this year, I want a hot date. So back off winter storms, late nights at work, the flu, or anything else that might keep me from my mission.
Chemical industry, I’m talking to you too! Keep your Chlorinated Tris, PBDEs and Firemaster 550 away. I’m looking to fan the flames of love, and your fire-retardant chemicals have no part in my V-day plans.
In fact, keep those fire-retardants away every day. Cancer, thyroid disease and nervous system damage aren’t very conducive to hot dates either—there is absolutely nothing sexy or hot about chemotherapy. And how about infertility
Living Dangerously (in a Unsafe Climate)
On January 24 th the Massachusetts Campaign for a Clean Energy Future—a coalition of organizations, coordinated by Clean Water Action, working to bring carbon pricing to the Bay State--held a screening of an episode of the Years of Living Dangerously in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
This Emmy award winning television show, featuring high profile celebrities like Sigourney Weaver, Don Cheadle, Jack Black, Gisele Bundchen and many others, is in its second season. The show explores different aspects of the climate crisis like mass extinctions, clean energy developments, community
Hundreds Flock to the MA State House for Clean Power
Climate deniers may have taken control of the White House, but here in Massachusetts - and states across the country - residents are pushing for clean power. The Mass Power Forward coalition, which Clean Water Action helps convene, recently held a lobby day to push for clean energy like wind and solar, promote environmental justice, push back against fracked gas pipeline expansion and secure just transition at shutting power plants like Pilgrim Nuclear.
The overwhelming turnout for a January day of action just shows how eager communities are to promote a responsible, renewable energy future