Local action is crucial! Tell your state legislator to support environmental priorities!

With a federal administration hostile to climate and environmental progress, state and local action are more important than ever. Massachusetts must step up and prove its leadership in renewable energy, public health, and conservation.

Each top priority bill was chosen by our volunteer legislative team because it builds the future we want.

We are fighting back against destructive and expensive fossil fuels while lowering energy bills.
We are working to dramatically reduce dangerous forever chemicals, PFAS, which are poisoning our water and our bodies.
We are protecting our critical watersheds and forests by creating more permanent parks and reserves that are off limits to logging and other development.
And we are putting our democratic values into practice by pushing our legislature to be more accessible, transparent, and accountable.

A future with climate justice and environmental justice is not just better for the planet - it is better for every area of life that intersects with it. Please join us by contacting your state legislators and asking them to support our priority legislation. All our voices together are powerful.

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The joint climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are the defining issues of our time. Massachusetts leadership has never been so crucial. As your constituent, I hope you will co-sponsor Sierra Club Massachusetts’s legislative priorities, listed below. H.3400 / S.2239 An Act Prohibiting The Use Of Ratepayer Funds For Utility Lobbying, Promotions Or Perks (Sen. Creem | Reps. Owens, Armini): Gas and electric utilities should only charge customers for services necessary to provide safe, affordable, and reliable utility services. This bill will codify much-needed consumer protections by prohibiting utilities from charging ratepayers for political activities and lavish expenses. H.3547 / S.2290 An Act Preventing Gas Expansion To Protect Climate, Community Health And Safety (Sen. Gomez | Reps. A. Ramos, Williams): Our clean energy goals, our energy bills, and our environmental justice communities are under attack. This bill prevents approval of new and expanded large gas pipelines and power plants within 5 miles of environmental justice communities. These projects would increase customer bills, pollute communities, and work against the State’s clean energy transition. The bill also supports a just transition for former and current energy workers who could be displaced by not building these projects in the future. H.952 An Act relative to watershed forest protection (Rep. Gentile): The Quabbin, Ware, and Wachusett Reservoirs are the primary water source for the greater Boston area, and forests filter the water entering these reservoirs. Forests that are already “mature” will continue to age and become “old growth” forests, which maximize incalculable ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and storage, regulating local weather patterns, water absorption, filtration, and flood prevention, and supporting biodiverse habitats. This bill protects 100,000 acres of public land by designating our state-owned watershed forests as permanent parks or reserves that are off-limits to logging and other development. H.2450 / S.1504 An Act to protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS (Sen. Cyr | Rep. Hogan): Polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS), also known as “forever” chemicals because of their inability to break down, have been decisively linked to fertility declines, weakened immune systems, developmental interference, cancer, hormone disruption, and other health effects. State testing has revealed they are increasingly accumulating in Massachusetts water, soil, and homes. This comprehensive bill will broadly address PFAS through education, remediation, and regulation. S.2099 An act to provide sunlight to state government (Sen. Eldridge): The bill would enact a host of transparency-related reforms, including requiring hearing dates to be posted at least two weeks in advance, allowing the public to request records of testimony, and requiring committee votes to be publicly reported. There are many worthy bills this session, and you can see additional supported legislation, including descriptions, here https://www.sierraclub.org/massachusetts/2025-2026-legislative-priorities Thank you for your consideration.

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