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While 2020 was a chaotic year of mixed results for both parties at the national: Democrats earned a new seat in the US Senate; won the Presidency; but lost seats in the House, Massachusetts elections by and large were mostly uneventful. Despite a...

Overall, September 1st was a night for incumbent victories. However, yhe biggest highlight of the night was the re-election of Senator Ed Markey who successfully fended off a fierce challenge from Representative Joe Kennedy. Markey pulled together...

The typical solution employed by municipal governments to control mosquito-borne diseases is to spray synthetic petrochemical pesticides (Anvil 10+10, a pyrethroid), even though it is the least effective and most environmentally damaging method.

On Friday, July 31st, the traditional last day of the legislative session, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at reducing our state’s carbon emissions. The bill would create carbon emissions targets for 2030 and 2040,...

Last night, the Massachusetts House of Representatives unanimously passed (159-0) the sewage notification bill (H.4921). The bill named, An Act promoting awareness of sewage pollution in public waters, requires the public to be notified if and when...

Achieving racial justice and climate justice are intertwined because the systems that caused the climate emergency are racist.

Photo: Protests in Boston on May 31, 2020 A week ago today, a black man named George Floyd was murdered by white Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. As this CNN article writes, “The combined effect of George Floyd being...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has already had an incredibly detrimental impact on the health and safety of Massachusetts residents, especially those with asthma or other pre-existing respiratory conditions. A new study has shown that COVID-19 patients...

The Massachusetts Chapter of the Sierra Club (MASC) announced the appointment of four new board members to its Executive Leadership Committee. Joining the board for the first time are Dorchester residents Vernon K. Walker and Jenny Lau, both active...

In December, Miranda Catsambas, Climate Leadership Fellow for the Sierra Club Massachusetts Chapter, attended a rally and march in support of affordable housing in the new Suffolk Downs redevelopment project in East Boston. Read Miranda's blog post...