350 Mass Legislative Agenda for 2025-2026

Press your legislators to support our campaign priorities. We need to renovate 1 million homes with clean energy by 2030, replace high emitting vehicles with electric ones, increase solar energy, hold big polluters accountable, and much more. To get there, we need support in the legislature, which we can only build through grassroots organizing in districts across the state. Meet with your legislator and ask them to support our campaign priorities.

If they don’t say yes right away, consider organizing an event, writing a letter to the editor, or organizing calls to their office to show them that their constituents care about these bills. You can provide your legislators a link to a printable summary of 350 Mass’s legislative priorities for the 2025-2026 legislative session here. Summaries of our priority bills coming soon!

Our Top Priority Bills

Climate and Environmental Justice

Outdoor Air Quality for Communities Overburdened by Outdoor Air Pollution H.2369/S.1548 (Barber, Connolly/Jehlen) - Creates an advisory committee to study air pollution hotspots and recommend locations for air filtration units.

Improve indoor air quality for highly-impacted communities H.2427/S.2276 (Garcia,Montaño/Gomez) - Creates a task force to study and remediate indoor air pollution and mold in a variety of buildings including schools and housing.

 

 Buildings and Gas

 

Transition to affordable, clean thermal energy S.2249 (Creem) - Follow up on victories of Future of Clean Heat campaign around Gas Transition.

Mass Save Zero Carbon Assessments  H.3565/S.2247 (Sangiolo, Creem) – Enhance Mass Save programs to incorporate solar and battery storage.

Creating a Climate Bank in Massachusetts H.3216/S.786 (Meschino, Mark) - Create a “green bank” to fund mitigation projects and attract private funding.

Municipal Voices S.2248 (Creem) – Give municipalities input into local gas system utility work.

 

Transportation

Align the state transportation plans with its mandates and goals for reducing emissions and vehicle miles traveled S.2246 (Creem) - Ensure state transportation funding is aligned with state climate goals.

 

Other

Make Polluters Pay H.1014/S.588 (Owens/Eldridge) – Require superfund-like payments from major polluters as measured by emissions from 1995 - 2024, raising billions over 25 years for climate adaptation projects statewide

 

 

 

Other Bills We Support

Environmental and Labor Justice

Preventing gas expansion to protect climate, community health and safety H.3547/S.2290 (Ramos, B. Williams/Gomez) – Stop gas system expansion within five miles of EJ communities and to protect workers, jobs, wages and benefits.

Advancing Clean Energy Equity H.3540/S.185 (Owens/Miranda) – Ensure rollout of clean energy technology proportionally benefits Environmental Justice communities.

Just transition and Clean Energy Workforce Standard H.3475/S.2276 (Decker, Feeney) - Create standards to ensure good working conditions for gas company workers transitioning from fossil fuel based work.

Healthy and sustainable schools H.3691/S.2275 (Decker/Feeney) Energy Audits and recommendations for energy efficiency improvements. Includes labor standards.

Buildings

Prohibiting the use of ratepayer funds for utility lobbying, promotions or perks H.3400 (Owens/Armini) - Closes remaining loopholes on utility lobbying and public influence efforts.

 

Transportation 

Setting Deadlines to Electrify the MBTA Commuter Rail H.3753/S.2359 (Owens, Armini/Crighton) – Electrify the Newburyport/Rockport (goes through Chelsea and Lynn), and Providence lines and then the remainder of the lines  

Fleet Electrification H.3448/S.2358 (Barber, Meschino/Crighton) – Require all publicly owned and leased fleets (state, municipal, and school bus fleets with 25 or more vehicles) to be electric by 2035 and prioritize deployment in fleets serving EJ populations

Electrifying Regional Transit Authorities H.3723/S.3459 (LeBoeuf/Olivera) - Support electrification process for Regional Transit Authorities (RTA).

 

Other

AHEAD Act H.3194/S.1973 (Montaño/Eldridge) – Raises revenue through the Deeds Excise Tax for affordable housing, housing vouchers, rental assistance for extremely low-income families, and for climate resiliency and mitigation. Formerly HERO.

Sunlight Agenda S.2099  (Eldridge) - Transparency measures for open and accountable government.

Combating offshore tax avoidance H.3110/S.2033 (Gonalez/Lewis and Miranda) - Closes loopholes for major corporations to avoid paying their fair share in taxes.