Power Lines: News from the Mass climate movement

Sep 13, 2022

The Fair Share Amendment: Key to a Just Transition

This November, we Massachusetts voters will have the chance to support climate action in a powerful way. By voting in favor of the Fair Share Amendment–Voting YES on...

Sep 06, 2022

An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind

As of late, climate work has felt all-consuming with unbalanced victories. Moments resembling the story of Sisyphus have plagued the movement for decades and many of us have...

Aug 04, 2022

Sign the Bill, Baker

Dear Governor Baker, On behalf of 350 Massachusetts (“350 Mass”) – a statewide, grassroots, member-led network committed to a just transition for a climate-safe world – I ask that you...

Apr 05, 2022

Hungry for a Future

From March 15-March 22, 6 members of Climate Courage, the direct action wing of 350 Mass, undertook a hunger strike to stop MMWEC project 2015a,...

Mar 30, 2022

Energy Oligarchs on the March

ISO Gives in to Gas Companies, Gives Solar and Wind the Brush-off Profits Before Saving the Plant, Business as Usual at ISO-NE Read More

Mar 22, 2022

Why Im Fasting Joy

My name is Joy Gurrie. I am a mother and grandmother living in Ipswich. I retired from MIT’s Linear Accelerator Center in Middleton where I did computer-aided design....

Mar 17, 2022

Why I'm Fasting for a Future

I am participating in a hunger strike because I am desperate to wake people up to just how urgent the climate crisis is. Many people have...

Mar 01, 2022

Bill McKibben on the Fight to Fix the Grid

We’re entering the less glamorous phase of the global warming fight—and perhaps the most important one. You can help, come to the rally on Wednesday, March 16 at the State...

Feb 09, 2022

Out in the Streets Again for a REAL Energy Transition

The Tide is Rising and So Are We* On February 2 the North Shore Chamber of Commerce held their annual Business Insight Breakfast: Energy Forum, which focuses on...

Feb 02, 2022

Hours before Joint Rule 10 deadline, Massachusetts activists push for the favorable reporting of key environmental justice bills whose fates are still unknown

Watch the full recording here. MA – Next month marks a year since the Massachusetts legislature passed the Next-Generation Roadmap...

Jan 21, 2022

Clean, green electric truck rules proposed for Massachusetts

Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks account for only 7% of the vehicles in Massachusetts, but 20% of MA’s transportation greenhouse gas emissions and 46% of nitrogen oxides emissions. ...

Nov 13, 2021

Utilities Forced to Change Mass Save Program

In August of this year, the utility-run Mass Save program said it was impossible to create a housing weatherization and electrification program that would meet the state's climate...

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