Letter to send to key legislators

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.) 

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