MA: Environmental Justice Briefing Action

Mothers Out Front is asking Massachusetts lawmakers to support two Environmental Justice bills this week. You can help by asking your State Representative to attend the upcoming briefings for legislators on these two important bills:

1) Improve Air Quality for Communities Burdened by Transportation Pollution, H2230 (Fact Sheet)

Improve indoor and outdoor air quality for communities burdened by transportation pollution. Sponsors: Barber‌, Connolly

2) Energy Facilities Siting Reform, H3336 (Fact Sheet)

Protect vulnerable communities from future polluting energy projects. Sponsor: Madaro

All residents of Massachusetts have a right to a clean and healthy environment. Yet, too often polluting power plants ...

Mothers Out Front is asking Massachusetts lawmakers to support two Environmental Justice bills this week. You can help by asking your State Representative to attend the upcoming briefings for legislators on these two important bills:

1) Improve Air Quality for Communities Burdened by Transportation Pollution, H2230 (Fact Sheet)

Improve indoor and outdoor air quality for communities burdened by transportation pollution. Sponsors: Barber‌, Connolly

2) Energy Facilities Siting Reform, H3336 (Fact Sheet)

Protect vulnerable communities from future polluting energy projects. Sponsor: Madaro

All residents of Massachusetts have a right to a clean and healthy environment. Yet, too often polluting power plants, electrical substations, and gas compressor stations are concentrated in communities where people of color, low-income people, and limited English proficient speakers live and work. These environmental justice (EJ) populations experience higher rates of pollution, disease, and other public health emergencies. COVID-19 has further shown that high concentrations of pollution can lead to increased mortality from respiratory disease.

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Subject:

I am a constituent in your district and a supporter of Mothers Out Front in Massachusetts. I am writing to ask you to support two important bills.  These bills will reduce and protect vulnerable communities which are experiencing unfair health burdens due to pollution caused by transportation and by energy infrastructure. I ask that you or a staff member attend the briefings on these bills:

- Wed, Sept 15 (10 - 11am) Air Quality: https://tinyurl.com/AirQuality4MA
- Mon, Oct 4 (10 - 11am) Siting Justice: https://tinyurl.com/SitingJustice

Clean air and climate are important issues to me.

Air Quality:

H.2230, An Act to improve outdoor and indoor air quality for communities burdened by transportation pollution
Fact Sheet: https://tinyurl.com/AirQualityFactSheet
Sponsors: Representatives Barber and Connolly

Now more than ever, we know that breathing clean air is a matter of life and health. COVID-19 has shown that high concentrations of pollution can lead to increased mortality from respiratory disease. Air quality affects every corner of our public health. Massachusetts residents and workers are exposed to air pollution caused by cars, trucks, trains, boats, and planes.

Environmental Justice (EJ) populations — people of color, Indigenous people, low-income people, and limited English proficient speakers — are especially affected by air quality problems. On average, residents of color in Massachusetts are exposed to pollution from vehicle emissions that are 26 to 36 percent higher than the exposure of white residents.

Energy Siting Justice:

H.3336 An Act Relative to Energy Facilities Siting Reform to Address Environmental Justice, Climate, and Public Health
Fact Sheet: https://tinyurl.com/EnergySitingFactSheet
Sponsor: Representative Madaro

Decisions on where to locate energy facilities play a critical role in managing pollution and safeguarding communities. But the Energy Facilities Siting Board (Siting Board) needs to be required to consider EJ, public health, and climate change as part of its deliberations. The Massachusetts Siting Reform Bill will protect vulnerable communities, provide clear guidance to the Siting Board and ensure that everyone’s voice is heard.

Thank you for your public service to our district and to our state.

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