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Does anyone know what happened to the "Digital Right to Repair" bill in the last session of Beacon Hill? Looks like it might have died in Ways and Means committee, where the last recorded action was in July.

The letter: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/sites/default/files/progressive_climate_leg_sign-on_letter_final.pdf

Also spotted Sugar Shack Alliance, Traprock Peace Center, and Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence Climate Action Group...

For those of us only reacting to the headlines the Green New Deal gets this is an important read.

Thank you Marty Marty Arthur Nathan!

Thanks, Marty. Sadly, the authors of the Green New Deal are not making themselves available for input so we are taking this opportunity to point out a few of its flaws in hopes people will address them. The Deal, as it stands now, may include dirty wood biomass as "renewable energy". We do NOT have the luxury of waiting 80-100 years for logged forests to regain all the CO2 lost during the cutting and production. Hence, in a time of Climate Crisis, wood biomass does qualify as "renewable" and efforts to make it appear so will severely undermine our collective effort to confront climate chaos. Recent climate science supports this. Further, we MUST preserve and protect our public forests to continue the important work of sequestering CO2 emissions. Our forests are way more valuable as carbon capture zones than was a commodity to be traded away, especially offshore. Here in the Commonwealth the Department of Conservation and Recreation is not functioning with the latest climate science in mind and our public forests are being mismanaged. The same mismanagement is happening in other states and, sadly, in our National Forests as well.

Yay, Steve Jones!