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By Tara Wallace On Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Sierra Club MA Forest Protection team and allies were at the Statehouse delivering a petition with 1,000+ signers from across the state urging Governor Maura Healey to set aside the...

Join the MA Sierra Club Forest Protection team as we submit public comments to the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Division of Water Supply Protection (DCR-DWSP). For their fiscal year 2026, they have proposed cutting in around 1,200...

By Clint Richmond The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) supplies all or part of the drinking water to about 2.7 million people in forty-seven municipalities in the eastern part of the Commonwealth. This represents almost...

By Jess Nahigian Massachusetts has a proud legacy of climate leadership, thanks to bold policies passed every single legislative session to drive forward our needed transition to clean energy. And last year, we did it again with a...

By Sam Lambert. Ephemeral. It’s a word that has captured a significant amount of my attention for the better part of two months. It’s one of those words that is common enough that it doesn’t raise eyebrows, but unique enough to catch your ear if...

By Jess Nahigian After a winter of high energy bills, the Governor promised that she would address rising costs in an energy affordability bill. On Monday, that long-awaited energy bill arrived. And in a moment when decision-makers are...

On Monday, Monday, May 5, 2025, the Massachusetts Chapter testified in front of the Joint Committee on Higher Education in support of S.922, An Act relative to the Bean New Deal. The following is a transcript of that testimony. By...

By Sam Lambert When I was younger, I would often listen to my aunty tell stories of her adventures. She was fiercely anti-war growing up in the time of Vietnam and often traveled to protests. I recall saying, more than once, that I...

 By Sam Lambert Everett has played a major role in delivering energy to the New England region for nearly a century and until last year, was home to one of the country’s longest running power plants, the Mystic Generating Station...

By Jess Nahigian The further we progress into 2025, the clearer it becomes that the Massachusetts legislature must prioritize ACTION. In the face of federal threats to things like clean energy and national parks, our hope for...