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| Environment Massachusetts and its coalition partners sent the following letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, urging him to support approval of the Cape Wind project in the face of further stalling from the opposition. | |
| A new national report finds that Massachusetts’ households would save an average of $274 per year and 15,200 sustainable jobs would be created in the state over the next ten years if Congress acts now to include strong energy efficiency improvements in energy and climate legislation. | |
| With the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy, our country lost an ardent environmental champion. | |
| As thousands of Bay Staters gathered on Boston’s City Hall Plaza for Greenfest 2009, Environment Massachusetts, a citizen based environmental advocacy organization joined with Mayor Menino to celebrate Boston’s commitment to the environment and call on state leaders to take bold action to Repower the state with clean, renewable energy. | |
| Between 2010 and 2030, Massachusetts will spend as much as $545.1 billion on oil, coal, and other fossil fuels - 2.4 times the total earnings of all Massachusetts workers in 2007. At the same time, pollution from fossil fuels is the number one source of air and global warming pollution and a leading source of water pollution, said Environment Massachusetts in their new report. | |
| Statement of Environment Massachusetts Advocate Ben Wright on the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act | |
| U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey today introduced the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), comprehensive energy legislation that the committee will consider next week. | |
| A comprehensive plan to make our nation’s buildings more efficient by 2030 could save enough energy to power all of our nation’s cars, homes and businesses for a year and a half while saving Americans more than $500 billion, according to a new report by Environment Massachusetts. By renovating old buildings and ensuring that new ones use 50 percent less energy within ten years and generate as much energy as they use by 2030, we can cut U.S. global warming emissions by at least 34 percent by 2050. | |
| On President Obama’s 100th day in office, Congress passed a budget resolution that sets the stage for his ambitious environmental agenda. Further legislation is needed to enact the policies that are assumed in the budget resolution. | |
