ACTION ALERT (updated 2/7)! Push back against fossil fuel interests nationally by supporting climate action on the state level!

  • February 7, 2017

This is a CRUCIAL time for Massachusetts legislation.

Though we have passed the deadline for co-sponsoring House bills, legislators can sign on to Senate bills up until the time of hearing. Ask your legislators to sign on to the Senate bills endorsed by CAN NOW. 

 

 
Instructions to do this important climate action in four steps:

  1.  Find  the contact information for your legislators.

Simply enter your zip code. 

                Click HERE  https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

2. Send a letter, including the list of the bills CAN endorses. Letters are always better than emails. Add a personal note.

 

   Click HERE for list of 2017-2018 Bills Endorsed by Climate Action Now, Western MA

Click HERE for sample letter to your representative or senator about these climate action bills

Send to [your representative’s name] 24 Beacon St
Boston, MA, 02133

3. Send an email.  

 Copy and paste the following section for your email.  

 

Use this subject line:  Urgent  – Need your co-sponsorship on these climate bills this week!
 

Dear Representative [PUT YOUR REP NAME HERE] 


Thank you very much for your past support for climate action. Climate change is accelerating faster than ever expected and our window to act is rapidly closing. With back-stepping by the federal government, it is all the more urgent that states like ours take definitive leadership on making the transition to clean, renewable energy and decreasing fossil fuel emissions. We need you to help mobilize the Massachusetts legislature to meet these challenges. I ask you to act swiftly to co-sponsor the climate bills in this package.

I ask that you personally take a leadership role in putting climate related issues front and center. I ask you to act swiftly to co-sponsor the climate bills in this package. Getting the whole package enacted will require legislators to not only co-sponsor the bills but actively work to get them enacted.  Climate Action Now will be rating legislators this session to allow constituents to see how strongly their legislators support the bills in our legislative package. As my legislator, I hope you will be one of those who will get an A+.
Thank you. 

[PUT YOUR NAME AND TOWN HERE] 

Climate Action Now, WM

 

 4.  Make a phone call to follow up on your letter and email. 

 

BONUS:  Amplify! Personally ask a friend in another part of the state to do this. Forward this page to them.  State action on climate is all-important now.

Thank you for TAKING ACTION!   Together, we are unstoppable.

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For a deeper dive into these bills, you can read the text   at https://malegislature.gov/Bills

We need to call our representatives early and often starting NOW, to let them know that climate must be a top priority.

 

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