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A new coalition in Vermont aims to unify grassroots work on racial, economic and environmental justice policies.
Vermont Renews was launched last week by advocates and legislators who support action on social justice and environmental policies. It is currently comprised of nine organizations including labor, racial justice and environmental advocates.
Rights and Democracy Movement Politics Director Kiah Morris is a member of the Vermont Commission on Women. She hosted the virtual launch of Vermont Renews. “Our current systems are deeply dysfunctional, rooted in historical oppressions and fragile. And when those fragile systems break it is the Vermonters who have been systemically kept out of the places of power that are the most impacted: Abenaki and indigenous persons, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQIA ( Outright Action International: LGBTQIA – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual and/or Ally) individuals, individua
State committee announces new climate bill
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State Sen. Mike Barrett and State Rep. Thomas Golden Jr. announced on Jan. 3 the Conference Committee on Climate has reached an agreement on An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy (S.2995).
Barrett and Golden Jr., the senate and house chairs, respectively, of the committee, also expressed gratitude to the other members of the committee State Sen. Cindy Creem, State Sen. Patrick O’Connor, State Rep. Pat Haddad and State Rep. Brad Jones.
The committee also announced their next step is to submit the recommended compromise to the respective chambers for their consideration and approval.
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Massachusetts, Urge Gov. Baker to Sign Climate Bill
John Rogers, Senior energy analyst | January 8, 2021, 11:20 am EDT
Massachusetts’s next step on addressing climate change has made its way to Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk. The state legislature passed a solid climate-energy-justice bill this week that
needs the governor’s signature
now to become law. He should sign it, and needs to hear that from you.
We have a great bill…
Earlier this week, before incredible injustice and outrage and tragedy drew so much of our attention elsewhere, the Massachusetts legislature passed a strong piece of legislation on climate, clean energy, and environmental justice. While the bill was something we had hoped for and that many thousands of residents had demanded, the timing was unexpected. The “Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy,” which brought tog
BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker now has a climate change bill on his desk that represents the state s first major legislative effort in a dozen years to address one of the most pressing issues of our time.
On Monday night, both the Senate and the House passed a bill known as the Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy by wide margins, with only two senators objecting and just nine of 154 representatives voting against the bill, which updates the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008.
“Yesterday, the Legislature met the moment and passed generational legislation that gets Massachusetts to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050,” state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, said Tuesday. “In the process, we advance justice for the communities who spent decades bearing the brunt of our collective environmental neglect.”