Amend The Environmental Bond Bill - Save Forests & Protect Public Health
Preserving mature trees in our cities and towns is essential to reducing excessive heat, air pollution, and stormwater flooding. Preserving MA forests as wildland reserves—with no logging—is necessary to win the best regional climate benefits for water and air temperature in addition to carbon capture and storage and preservation of biodiversity. High air pollution levels increase the risk of severe respiratory illness and death, so protecting air quality and reducing heat means protecting lives.
Click the link to send an automatic email urging your Representative to support the following key improvements to the Environmental Bond Bill:
- A full Municipal Reforestation Program - H.1013
- Preserving most state-owned forests as wildland reserves
- An expanded Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (“Plus”) Program - H.1310
- Updates to the Public Shade Tree Law - H.2322
- A Commission to Regulate Sandmining - H.5267
- Preventing Insurers from Forcing Tree Removal - H.1316
- First we need to ask the House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading to favorably report H.1316 to the House Ways and Means Committee.
- Improving outdoor air quality (H.4590) and indoor air quality (H.2369) in highly impacted communities
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