VIA EMAIL
Hon. Ronald Mariano, Speaker of the House
Hon. Aaron Michlewitz, House Chair, Committee on Ways & Means
Hon. Jeffrey Roy, House Chair, Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy Re: H.3333 – An Act to prevent biomass energy to protect the air we breathe Dear Speaker Mariano, and Chairs Michlewitz and Roy:
On behalf of the more than 100 undersigned local, state, and national organizations, we respectfully request that you include, in the climate package that the House is now developing, the policy encapsulated in H.3333 (Livingstone, Ramos, et al., An Act to prevent biomass energy to protect the air we breathe).
As you are aware, H.3333 removes woody biomass from the list of technologies eligible for renewable energy incentives in the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) and Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (APS). These ratepayer-funded programs are best used to incentivize clean, non-emitting energy technologies, such as wind and solar, not wood-burning technologies, which cause harmful air pollution while exacerbating climate change.
The RPS and APS statutes must be amended to end their abuse.
The Baker administration is moving forward with its efforts to roll back MA’s landmark 2012 RPS rules, with a public comment hearing scheduled for next week before the Department of Energy Resources (DOER). The existing science-based RPS rules were hailed nationally when they were adopted a decade ago, precisely because they ensured that electricity-only biomass power plants would not qualify for subsidies, due to their excessive greenhouse gas emissions and overall inefficiency. The APS regulations that Governor Baker’s administration adopted in 2017 include weak emissions standards and weak forest protection guidelines for qualifying biomass heating systems.
DOER now proposes weakening the RPS regulations to match the APS regulations, calling it “regulatory streamlining.” The new rules would allow highly polluting stand-alone biomass power plants in Maine, New Hampshire and elsewhere to once again be eligible to qualify for Massachusetts ratepayer subsidies.
Massachusetts ratepayers have already spent millions of dollars to promote wood-burning technologies through the APS.1 Under the RPS rules that have been in place for nearly a decade, only a few small, highly efficient combined heat and power biomass plants have been eligible for the Massachusetts RPS. The administration’s RPS changes would funnel even more millions to a polluting industry by subsidizing utility-scale economically unviable wood-burning power plants
1 See PFPI, Financial Considerations for H. 853, 5/5/19, pp. 2-4.
throughout New England2—plants whose smokestack CO2 emissions are worse than coal per unit of energy generated.3
2 Booth, M. S. (2017). Maine Bioenergy at the Crossroads: Costs of a Failing Industry. Pelham, MA, Partnership for Policy Integrity (available at https://www.pfpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/ 04/PFPI-Maine-Biomass-Report-4-18-17.pdf).
3 See for instance PFPI, FAQs on the Proposed PRE Power Plant in Springfield and DOER’s Plans to Weaken Biomass Standards in the RPS, 5/29/19. (Note that while the new RPS regulations include a carveout to prevent Class 1 RPS subsidies for power plants in environmental justice communities such as Springfield, there are no such protections in the APS or Class 2 RPS regulations.)
The climate crisis calls for immediate action.
Climate science shows that to avoid catastrophic warming, we must dramatically reduce GHG emissions over the next eight years and increase uptake of CO2 that’s already in the atmosphere. With such a short timeframe for meaningful climate action, it is imperative that clean energy funding and incentives be used to promote new zero-carbon-emission resources, both for heating and electricity, to displace fossil fuels. At the very least, they should not be used to support technologies that add more carbon dioxide and air pollution than fossil fueled sources.
Importantly, we ask that the effective date language in Section of H.3333 be amended to ensure that this bill applies to all wood-derived biomass facilities, regardless of when they began operation. Such a legislative solution is the cleanest way to move forward—cleaning up the ratepayer-funded RPS and APS programs to support more non-emitting technologies, rather than combustion-based technologies.
Thank you for the leadership you have taken on climate policy. When the General Court takes up climate legislation this session, we urge that it remove woody biomass from the RPS and APS altogether. The Commonwealth will not be able to meet its climate mandates if it continues to subsidize polluting technologies through its clean energy programs.
Signed,
Jacqueline Royce, Co-Founder
Amy Boyd, Director of Policy Acadia Center
Boston, MA
Tanisha Arena, Executive Director Arise For Social Justice
Springfield, MA
Delta Carney, Administrator Ashfield Affiliates
Ashfield, MA
Back Bay Green
Boston, MA
Anne O’Connor, Co-Founder Bee Friendly Williamstown
Williamstown, MA
Jane Winn, Executive Director Berkshire Enviromental Action Team Pittsfield, MA
James O. Michel, Co-Founder Boston Clean Energy Coalition Boston, MA
Jennifer Wexler, President
Canton Residents for a Sustainable, Equitable Future
Canton, MA
Victoria Bogdan Tejeda, Attorney Center for Biological Diversity
Oakland, CA
Jane Dye, Facilitator
Citizens for Holden’s Energy Future (CHEF)
Holden, MA
Jerry Halberstadtg, Coordinator
Clean Power Coalition
Peabody, MA
Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts Director Clean Water Action
Boston, MA
William Diamond, Chair
Climate Action Group, Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence
Northampton, MA
Adele Franks, Steering Committee Member Climate Action Now, Western Mass Northampton, MA
Regina LaRocque, Founder
Climate Code Blue
Somerville, MA
Bob Armstrong, Chair
FCCPR Climate Crisis Task Force Conway, MA
Mary Cerulli, Founder
Climate Finance Action
Boston, MA
Laura Gardner, Chair
Climate Reality Massachusetts Southcoast Fairhaven, MA
Larry Yu, Co-Chair
Climate Reality Project Boston Metro Boston, MA
Diane Jones
Climate Resilient Central Mass
Shrewsbury, MA
Sabrina Davis, Lead Organizer on Environment & Transit
Coalition for Social Justice
Fall River, MA
Mireille Bejjani, Energy Justice Director Community Action Works Campaigns Boston, MA
Janet Miller
Comprehensive Sustainability and Energy Committee
Concord, MA
Janet Sinclair, Director
Concerned Citizens of Franklin County Greenfield, MA
Bradley Hubbard-Nelson, Treasurer ConcordCAN!
Concord, MA
Caitlin Peale Sloan, Vice President, Massachusetts
Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
Jessica Brown,
Divest Smith College
Northampton, MA
Mark Dorsey,
East Forest Park Civc Association Springfield, Ma
Connie Dawson, Chair
Easthampton Climate Action
Easthampton, MA
Joanne Mills
Elders Action Network
Danvers, MA
Maiyim Baron, Leadership Team Elders Climate Action – Massachusetts Chapter
Brookline, MA
Casey Bowers, Assistant V.P. for Government Relations
Environmental League of Massachusetts Boston, MA
Susan C. Lemont, Media and Messaging Coordinator
Extinction Rebellion Boston
Arlington, MA
Emmalie Dropkin, Coordinator
Extinction Rebellion Western
Massaschusetts
Northampton, MA
Russ Vernon-Jones, Coordinator
First Church Amherst, UCC Earth Ministry Team
Amherst, MA
Nisha Swinton, Northeast Senior Organizer Food & Water Watch
Brooklyn, NY
John Galt, Co-Founder
Friends of Peru State Forest
Pittsfield, MA
Vicky Jenkins, Chair
Gill Energy Commission
Gill, MA
Andee Krasner, Manager, Climate and Health
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
Brookline, MA
Marcia Cooper, President
Green Newton
Newton, MA
Gail Page, Steering Committee Member Green Sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading
Reading, MA
Verne McArthur, Member, Green Team Green Team, Unitarian Universalist Society of Greater Springfield
Springfield, MA
Dorothy McIver, Member
Greening Greenfield
Greenfield, MA
Ellen Moyer, PhD, PE, Principal
Greenvironment, LLC
Southampton, MA
Ericsson Broadbent, Treasurer
Harvard Solar Gardens
Harvard, MA
Lynn Nadeau, Treasurer
HealthLink
Salem/Lynn/Marblehead/Swampscott, MA
Ken Kipen, Director
Hilltown Anti-Herbicide Coalition Ashfield, MA
Joshua Wachtel, Treasurer
Hilltown Vision Fund
Cummington, MA
Cindy Rowe, Executive Director
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Boston, MA
David Schreiber, Steering Committee Member
Jewish Climate Action Network, MA Arlington, MA
Kirstin Beatty, Director
Last Tree Laws
Holyoke, MA
Jessica Ryan, Spokesperson
League of Women Voters – Amherst Amherst, MA
Elizabeth Foster-Nolan, President League of Women Voters of Massachusetts Boston, MA
Jeanne K. Krieger, Co-Chair Advocacy Committee
LexCAN Lexington Climate Action Network
Lexington, MA
Samantha Hamilton, Program Manager Live Well Springfield
Springfield, MA
Michele Marantz, Chair
Longmeadow Pipeline Awareness Group Longmeadow, MA
Sarah Dooling, Executive Director Massachusetts Climate Action Network Waltham, MA
Chris Matera, Founder
Massachusetts Forest Watch
Northampton, MA
Rev. Fred Small, Policy Director Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light Newton, MA
Cathy Kristofferson, Executive Committee Member
MassPLAN
Ashby, MA
Walter J. Kroll, President McKnight Neighborhood Council
McKnight Neighborhood Council Springfield, MA
Amanda Hurowitz, Senior Advisor Mighty Earth
Washington, DC
Andra Rose, Coordinator, Legislation and Regulation Team
Mothers Out Front Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Lis McLoughlin, CEO
NatureCulture LLC
Northfield, MA
Silvia Solaun, Executive Director NE Forest Watch
Sparta, NJ
Ernesto Cruz, Policy Coordinator Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Springfield, MA
Diane Brooks Ring, Co-Founder
No Ashland Pipeline
Ashland, MA
Rosemary Wessel, Program Director No Fracked Gas in Mass
Pittsfield, MA
Jerry Rivers, Environmental Scientist North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)
Roosevelt, NY
Karen Martin, Chair
North Parish of North Andover Climate Justice Group
North Andover, MA
Nancy Polan, Legislative Director, Climate Director
Northampton Area League of Women Voters
Southampton, MA
Carole Horowitz, NOFA/MA Policy Committee Member
Northeast Organic Farming Association/MA Florence, MA
Eben Bein, MA Field and Education Manager
Our Climate
Cambridge, MA
Holly Richardson, Director
Out Now
Springfield, MA
Laura Haight, US Policy Director Partnership for Policy Integrity
Pelham, MA
Kathryn R. Eiseman, President & CEO Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast
Cummington, MA
Jonathan Cohn, Policy Director
Progressive Massachusetts
Boston, MA
Michael Kellett, Executive Director RESTORE: The North Woods
Concord, MA
Connell Heady, Co-Chair
River Valley Democratic Socialists of America
Anya Klepacki, undertaker
Rust Temple
Easthampton, MA
Patricia A. Gozemba, Co-Chair
SAFE (Salem Alliance for the Environment) Salem, MA
Janet Sinclair, Co-Founder
Save Massachusetts Forests
Shelburne Falls, MA
Margaret Sheehan, Coordinator
Save the Pine Barrens, Inc.
Plymouth, MA
Stephanie A Blumenthal, Founder Sheffield Saves
Sheffield, MA
Deb Pasternak, State Director
Sierra Club Massachusetts
Boston, MA
Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Missioner for Creation Care, Social Justice
Commission Episcopal Diocese of Western MA
Springfield, MA
Wendy Morrill, President
South Coast Neighbors United
New Bedford, MA
Nathalie Bridegam, UCC
Climate/Sustainability Team
South Congregational Church, UCC Amherst, MA
Emma Brewer-Wallin, Minister of Environmental & Economic Justice Southern New England Conference, UCC Framingham, MA
Verne McArthur, Pipeline Campaign Coordinator
Springfield Climate Justice Campaign Springfield, MA
Zack Porter, Director
Standing Trees
Montpelier, VT
Jessica Brown,
Sunrise Northampton
Northampton, MA
Kimberly French, Leadership Team Sustainable Middleborough
Middleboro, MA
Laurie Wodin, Co-Administrator
Sustainable Upton
Upton, MA
Mary Gard, Leadership Team Member Sustainable Wellesley
Wellesley, MA
Don Ogden, Producer/co-host
The Enviro Show
Florence, MA
Janet Cason, President
350 Central Mass
Northborough, MA
Carolyn C. Barthel, Executive Committee Member
350 Mass (Statewide)
Mendon, MA
Susan Purser, Coordinator
350 Mass Berkshires
Pittsfield, MA
Jim Mulloy, Node Coordinator
350 Mass North Shore
Salem, MA
Anna Gyorgy, Communications Coordinator Traprock Center for Peace & Justice Greenfield, MA
Nicholas Warren,
2 Degrees Northampton
Northampton, MA
Claire Müller, Movement Building Director Unitarian Universalist Mass Action Boston, MA
Philip Czachorowski, Co-Chair
Walpole Green
Walpole, MA
Laurel Facey, Secretary
Wendell State Forest Alliance
Wendell, MA
Randi Klein, Action Planning Committee Member
Western Mass Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Northampton, MA
Wendy Penner, Chair
Williamstown COOL Committee Williamstown, MA
March 21, 2022
VIA EMAIL
Hon. Ronald Mariano, Speaker of the House
Hon. Aaron Michlewitz, House Chair, Committee on Ways & Means
Hon. Jeffrey Roy, House Chair, Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy Re: H.3333 – An Act to prevent biomass energy to protect the air we breathe Dear Speaker Mariano, and Chairs Michlewitz and Roy:
On behalf of the more than 100 undersigned local, state, and national organizations, we respectfully request that you include, in the climate package that the House is now developing, the policy encapsulated in H.3333 (Livingstone, Ramos, et al., An Act to prevent biomass energy to protect the air we breathe).
As you are aware, H.3333 removes woody biomass from the list of technologies eligible for renewable energy incentives in the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) and Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (APS). These ratepayer-funded programs are best used to incentivize clean, non-emitting energy technologies, such as wind and solar, not wood-burning technologies, which cause harmful air pollution while exacerbating climate change.
The RPS and APS statutes must be amended to end their abuse.
The Baker administration is moving forward with its efforts to roll back MA’s landmark 2012 RPS rules, with a public comment hearing scheduled for next week before the Department of Energy Resources (DOER). The existing science-based RPS rules were hailed nationally when they were adopted a decade ago, precisely because they ensured that electricity-only biomass power plants would not qualify for subsidies, due to their excessive greenhouse gas emissions and overall inefficiency. The APS regulations that Governor Baker’s administration adopted in 2017 include weak emissions standards and weak forest protection guidelines for qualifying biomass heating systems.
DOER now proposes weakening the RPS regulations to match the APS regulations, calling it “regulatory streamlining.” The new rules would allow highly polluting stand-alone biomass power plants in Maine, New Hampshire and elsewhere to once again be eligible to qualify for Massachusetts ratepayer subsidies.
Massachusetts ratepayers have already spent millions of dollars to promote wood-burning technologies through the APS.1 Under the RPS rules that have been in place for nearly a decade, only a few small, highly efficient combined heat and power biomass plants have been eligible for the Massachusetts RPS. The administration’s RPS changes would funnel even more millions to a polluting industry by subsidizing utility-scale economically unviable wood-burning power plants
1 See PFPI, Financial Considerations for H. 853, 5/5/19, pp. 2-4.
throughout New England2—plants whose smokestack CO2 emissions are worse than coal per unit of energy generated.3
The climate crisis calls for immediate action.
Climate science shows that to avoid catastrophic warming, we must dramatically reduce GHG emissions over the next eight years and increase uptake of CO2 that’s already in the atmosphere. With such a short timeframe for meaningful climate action, it is imperative that clean energy funding and incentives be used to promote new zero-carbon-emission resources, both for heating and electricity, to displace fossil fuels. At the very least, they should not be used to support technologies that add more carbon dioxide and air pollution than fossil fueled sources.
Importantly, we ask that the effective date language in Section of H.3333 be amended to ensure that this bill applies to all wood-derived biomass facilities, regardless of when they began operation. Such a legislative solution is the cleanest way to move forward—cleaning up the ratepayer-funded RPS and APS programs to support more non-emitting technologies, rather than combustion-based technologies.
Thank you for the leadership you have taken on climate policy. When the General Court takes up climate legislation this session, we urge that it remove woody biomass from the RPS and APS altogether. The Commonwealth will not be able to meet its climate mandates if it continues to subsidize polluting technologies through its clean energy programs.
Signed,
Jacqueline Royce, Co-Founder
Amy Boyd, Director of Policy Acadia Center
Boston, MA
Tanisha Arena, Executive Director Arise For Social Justice
Springfield, MA
Delta Carney, Administrator Ashfield Affiliates
Ashfield, MA
Back Bay Green
Boston, MA
Anne O’Connor, Co-Founder Bee Friendly Williamstown
Williamstown, MA
Jane Winn, Executive Director Berkshire Enviromental Action Team Pittsfield, MA
James O. Michel, Co-Founder Boston Clean Energy Coalition Boston, MA
2 Booth, M. S. (2017). Maine Bioenergy at the Crossroads: Costs of a Failing Industry. Pelham, MA, Partnership for Policy Integrity (available at https://www.pfpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/ 04/PFPI-Maine-Biomass-Report-4-18-17.pdf).
3 See for instance PFPI, FAQs on the Proposed PRE Power Plant in Springfield and DOER’s Plans to Weaken Biomass Standards in the RPS, 5/29/19. (Note that while the new RPS regulations include a carveout to prevent Class 1 RPS subsidies for power plants in environmental justice communities such as Springfield, there are no such protections in the APS or Class 2 RPS regulations.)
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Jennifer Wexler, President
Canton Residents for a Sustainable, Equitable Future
Canton, MA
Victoria Bogdan Tejeda, Attorney Center for Biological Diversity
Oakland, CA
Jane Dye, Facilitator
Citizens for Holden’s Energy Future (CHEF)
Holden, MA
Jerry Halberstadtg, Coordinator
Clean Power Coalition
Peabody, MA
Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts Director Clean Water Action
Boston, MA
William Diamond, Chair
Climate Action Group, Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence
Northampton, MA
Adele Franks, Steering Committee Member Climate Action Now, Western Mass Northampton, MA
Regina LaRocque, Founder
Climate Code Blue
Somerville, MA
Bob Armstrong, Chair
FCCPR Climate Crisis Task Force Conway, MA
Mary Cerulli, Founder
Climate Finance Action
Boston, MA
Laura Gardner, Chair
Climate Reality Massachusetts Southcoast Fairhaven, MA
Larry Yu, Co-Chair
Climate Reality Project Boston Metro Boston, MA
Diane Jones
Climate Resilient Central Mass
Shrewsbury, MA
Sabrina Davis, Lead Organizer on Environment & Transit
Coalition for Social Justice
Fall River, MA
Mireille Bejjani, Energy Justice Director Community Action Works Campaigns Boston, MA
Janet Miller
Comprehensive Sustainability and Energy Committee
Concord, MA
Janet Sinclair, Director
Concerned Citizens of Franklin County Greenfield, MA
Bradley Hubbard-Nelson, Treasurer ConcordCAN!
Concord, MA
Caitlin Peale Sloan, Vice President, Massachusetts
Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
Jessica Brown,
Divest Smith College
Northampton, MA
Mark Dorsey,
East Forest Park Civc Association Springfield, Ma
Connie Dawson, Chair
Easthampton Climate Action
Easthampton, MA
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Joanne Mills
Elders Action Network
Danvers, MA
Maiyim Baron, Leadership Team Elders Climate Action – Massachusetts Chapter
Brookline, MA
Casey Bowers, Assistant V.P. for Government Relations
Environmental League of Massachusetts Boston, MA
Susan C. Lemont, Media and Messaging Coordinator
Extinction Rebellion Boston
Arlington, MA
Emmalie Dropkin, Coordinator
Extinction Rebellion Western
Massaschusetts
Northampton, MA
Russ Vernon-Jones, Coordinator
First Church Amherst, UCC Earth Ministry Team
Amherst, MA
Nisha Swinton, Northeast Senior Organizer Food & Water Watch
Brooklyn, NY
John Galt, Co-Founder
Friends of Peru State Forest
Pittsfield, MA
Vicky Jenkins, Chair
Gill Energy Commission
Gill, MA
Andee Krasner, Manager, Climate and Health
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
Brookline, MA
Marcia Cooper, President
Green Newton
Newton, MA
Gail Page, Steering Committee Member Green Sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading
Reading, MA
Verne McArthur, Member, Green Team Green Team, Unitarian Universalist Society of Greater Springfield
Springfield, MA
Dorothy McIver, Member
Greening Greenfield
Greenfield, MA
Ellen Moyer, PhD, PE, Principal
Greenvironment, LLC
Southampton, MA
Ericsson Broadbent, Treasurer
Harvard Solar Gardens
Harvard, MA
Lynn Nadeau, Treasurer
HealthLink
Salem/Lynn/Marblehead/Swampscott, MA
Ken Kipen, Director
Hilltown Anti-Herbicide Coalition Ashfield, MA
Joshua Wachtel, Treasurer
Hilltown Vision Fund
Cummington, MA
Cindy Rowe, Executive Director
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Boston, MA
David Schreiber, Steering Committee Member
Jewish Climate Action Network, MA Arlington, MA
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Kirstin Beatty, Director
Last Tree Laws
Holyoke, MA
Jessica Ryan, Spokesperson
League of Women Voters – Amherst Amherst, MA
Elizabeth Foster-Nolan, President League of Women Voters of Massachusetts Boston, MA
Jeanne K. Krieger, Co-Chair Advocacy Committee
LexCAN Lexington Climate Action Network
Lexington, MA
Samantha Hamilton, Program Manager Live Well Springfield
Springfield, MA
Michele Marantz, Chair
Longmeadow Pipeline Awareness Group Longmeadow, MA
Sarah Dooling, Executive Director Massachusetts Climate Action Network Waltham, MA
Chris Matera, Founder
Massachusetts Forest Watch
Northampton, MA
Rev. Fred Small, Policy Director Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light Newton, MA
Cathy Kristofferson, Executive Committee Member
MassPLAN
Ashby, MA
Walter J. Kroll, President McKnight Neighborhood Council
McKnight Neighborhood Council Springfield, MA
Amanda Hurowitz, Senior Advisor Mighty Earth
Washington, DC
Andra Rose, Coordinator, Legislation and Regulation Team
Mothers Out Front Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Lis McLoughlin, CEO
NatureCulture LLC
Northfield, MA
Silvia Solaun, Executive Director NE Forest Watch
Sparta, NJ
Ernesto Cruz, Policy Coordinator Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Springfield, MA
Diane Brooks Ring, Co-Founder
No Ashland Pipeline
Ashland, MA
Rosemary Wessel, Program Director No Fracked Gas in Mass
Pittsfield, MA
Jerry Rivers, Environmental Scientist North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)
Roosevelt, NY
Karen Martin, Chair
North Parish of North Andover Climate Justice Group
North Andover, MA
Nancy Polan, Legislative Director, Climate Director
Northampton Area League of Women Voters
Southampton, MA
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Carole Horowitz, NOFA/MA Policy Committee Member
Northeast Organic Farming Association/MA Florence, MA
Eben Bein, MA Field and Education Manager
Our Climate
Cambridge, MA
Holly Richardson, Director
Out Now
Springfield, MA
Laura Haight, US Policy Director Partnership for Policy Integrity
Pelham, MA
Kathryn R. Eiseman, President & CEO Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast
Cummington, MA
Jonathan Cohn, Policy Director
Progressive Massachusetts
Boston, MA
Michael Kellett, Executive Director RESTORE: The North Woods
Concord, MA
Connell Heady, Co-Chair
River Valley Democratic Socialists of America
Anya Klepacki, undertaker
Rust Temple
Easthampton, MA
Patricia A. Gozemba, Co-Chair
SAFE (Salem Alliance for the Environment) Salem, MA
Janet Sinclair, Co-Founder
Save Massachusetts Forests
Shelburne Falls, MA
Margaret Sheehan, Coordinator
Save the Pine Barrens, Inc.
Plymouth, MA
Stephanie A Blumenthal, Founder Sheffield Saves
Sheffield, MA
Deb Pasternak, State Director
Sierra Club Massachusetts
Boston, MA
Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Missioner for Creation Care, Social Justice
Commission Episcopal Diocese of Western MA
Springfield, MA
Wendy Morrill, President
South Coast Neighbors United
New Bedford, MA
Nathalie Bridegam, UCC
Climate/Sustainability Team
South Congregational Church, UCC Amherst, MA
Emma Brewer-Wallin, Minister of Environmental & Economic Justice Southern New England Conference, UCC Framingham, MA
Verne McArthur, Pipeline Campaign Coordinator
Springfield Climate Justice Campaign Springfield, MA
Zack Porter, Director
Standing Trees
Montpelier, VT
Jessica Brown,
Sunrise Northampton
Northampton, MA
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Kimberly French, Leadership Team Sustainable Middleborough
Middleboro, MA
Laurie Wodin, Co-Administrator
Sustainable Upton
Upton, MA
Mary Gard, Leadership Team Member Sustainable Wellesley
Wellesley, MA
Don Ogden, Producer/co-host
The Enviro Show
Florence, MA
Janet Cason, President
350 Central Mass
Northborough, MA
Carolyn C. Barthel, Executive Committee Member
350 Mass (Statewide)
Mendon, MA
Susan Purser, Coordinator
350 Mass Berkshires
Pittsfield, MA
Jim Mulloy, Node Coordinator
350 Mass North Shore
Salem, MA
Anna Gyorgy, Communications Coordinator Traprock Center for Peace & Justice Greenfield, MA
Nicholas Warren,
2 Degrees Northampton
Northampton, MA
Claire Müller, Movement Building Director Unitarian Universalist Mass Action Boston, MA
Philip Czachorowski, Co-Chair
Walpole Green
Walpole, MA
Laurel Facey, Secretary
Wendell State Forest Alliance
Wendell, MA
Randi Klein, Action Planning Committee Member
Western Mass Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Northampton, MA
Wendy Penner, Chair
Williamstown COOL Committee Williamstown, MA
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