The legislature failed to pass a climate bill this year. And now, under the guise of fixing the legislatures failure, Governor Healey has submitted a supplemental budget bill including a flimsy climate proposal. Her proposal only includes the House’s Siting and Permitting bill and the EJ provisions. Her bill masquerades as “streamlining” so-called clean energy projects. But it will increase environmental damages and increase profits for utilities and their shareholders—who are among the big donors to Governor Healey and also to the Boston Globe, which repeats Healey’s greenwashing in its coverage.

Contact your legislators and the governor today. Tell them to require all the following climate provisions:

• Reduce fossil fuel use, phase out methane gas, and stop subsidizing biomass.
• Require every renewable energy project to be environmentally responsibly sited with little or no deforestation and with independent scientific verification of environmental impacts.
• Require a Cumulative Impact Analysis in all Environmental Justice communities to ensure justice-centered siting of every energy project.
• Require MassPort to prioritize and promote state climate goals in every new project.
• Reduce plastics and forever chemicals: Ban PFAS, synthetic turf, and single-use plastics, and update the Bottle Bill.

Tell your legislators not to fall for Healey’s greenwashing. Passing only the Siting and Permitting bill is a bargain with the Devil that exchanges our children’s future for corporate profits. We need robust climate legislation!