On Day After Election, Springfield Residents Pack Public Hearing on Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Community Members Call for RGGI To Ramp Down Pollution, Protect and Benefit Disadvantaged Communities For Immediate Release-November 9th, 2016 Springfield, Mass.–Following a long election night, Springfield residents filled the room at a public hearing on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Northeast’s carbon trading program. Community members shared their stories of struggling with health problems […]
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Community Leaders Call on Governor Baker to Stand Against the Weymouth Compressor Station
Residents, Statewide Coalition Leaders React to FERC Decision on the Spectra Energy Project For Immediate Release-January 26, 2017 On January 25th, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a certificate of public necessity and convenience for Spectra’s Atlantic Bridge pipeline expansion project, clearing the way for the project to move forward. This project includes a compressor […]
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It’s Time to Get the Lead out of School Drinking Water
[Boston] – Citing growing evidence of pervasive lead contamination in schools’ drinking water, a coalition of lawmakers, public health, community, and environmental leaders today launched a new Get the Lead Out campaign. An analysis by MASSPIRG and Environment Massachusetts of 16 state laws gave Massachusetts a grade of ”D”, inadequate to prevent children’s drinking water […]
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New Report Release Click here to download the report. Contact: Deirdre Cummings, DCummings@MASSPIRG.org, 617-747-4319 Representative Lori Ehrlich, Lori.Ehrlich@MAHouse.gov, 617-722-2430 Ben Hellerstein, Ben@environmentmassachusetts.org, 914-420-9606 Sylvia Broude, Sylvia@communityactionworks.org, 617-747-4407
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Lawmakers Respond to PFOA Contamination by Working to Better Safeguard Public from Toxic Chemical Exposure
On the one-year anniversary of the discovery of PFOA contamination in private drinking water supplies in Bennington, lawmakers are working to improve toxic pollution protections for Vermonters FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE One year ago this week, the toxic chemical PFOA was discovered in private wells in Bennington and North Bennington, Vermont. Since then, PFOA has been […]
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