Last week, the House took up its climate omnibus bill. While the bill contains a number of important reforms, it lacks the ambition of the Senate’s recent bill, which did far more to accelerate the transition away from gas. And the Senate’s bill still hadn’t gone far enough to meet the moment, especially around environmental justice.
The process in the House was also emblematic of the chamber’s democracy deficit: of 107 amendments filed, 91 were withdrawn, and the handful that were adopted were watered down. What we see time and time again in the MA Legislature is that bad process leads to bad outcomes.
To read more about this, check out blog posts from Jess Nahigian at the Sierra Club and Dan Zackin at 350 Mass.
The Mass Power Forward coalition will be hosting rallies at the State House from through next Wednesday (7/31). You can sign up to join a rally here.
