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Legislative Priority Bills – July 2023
As the Massachusetts state legislature works through the many environmental bills that were filed in this legislative session, the Legislative Team has announced their priority bills. Click here to download the list.
ECA-Mass “Actionar” Call
On July 18 we co-sponsored an ActionR with the League of Women Voters and Mothers Our Front to make calls to legislators about four of our priority bills on building decarbonization. It was a successful initial experiment with hosting action calls. We will continue to tweak the process and hope to schedule more action calls in the fall.
Legislative Team Update: Learning, Connecting, Teaching
Until later in May, the House will be focused on budget issues, digesting the Healey budget, and then hammering out their own. The budget process wraps up in July when the governor gets to exercise her line-item veto on a budget bill worked out by a House/Senate...
Legislative Team Update
Prioritizing Our Support The Legislative Team is working toward delivering a proposed list of legislation for ECA Mass to back in the current legislative session. The team plans on identifying bills across three tiers of support: top priority, priority, and endorsed....
Legislative Team Ponders Priorities for Legislation and Implementation
Out of more than 6,000 bills submitted in the Commonwealth’s 2023-24 legislative session, the ECA Mass Legislative Team has identified 580 climate-related bills. (Any bill submitted in both the House and Senate gets counted as one by our math.) Coming after the...
Legislative Update January 2023
Your Legislative Team Prepares to Hit the Ground Running The ECA Mass Legislative Team has been brainstorming and reorganizing to maximize the effectiveness of our legislative advocacy in the coming year and to take on the challenge of monitoring and accelerating the...
Baker Stand-In—ECA-Mass Takes it to the State House
The “Stand for Baker” campaign was organized by Mass Power Forward, a coalition of over 150 climate-change organizations in the Boston area that has been a key source of information and coordination for ECA-Mass on legislative action. The aim of the campaign is...