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Welcome to the first edition of the Climate Leadership newsletter from the Massachusetts Sierra Club, with updates on local environmental, clean energy, and climate action from communities across the Commonwealth.

The Albany, NY chapter of the Sierra Club recently hosted MA Sierra Club member Sue Butler, at an evening presentation, “Eco-Chat: Sustainable You, Sustainable Me,” which included a screening of the film,” Leaving the Carbon Economy” and a very...

Last night, on the final day of the legislative session, the Massachusetts House and Senate passed a clean energy compromise bill. While this bill does make some incremental positive changes, such as a small annual increase the Renewable Portfolio...

The Massachusetts Senate passed an ambitious energy omnibus bill on Thursday, June 14, compiling several pieces of legislation that would keep Massachusetts on track to meet its 2050 greenhouse gas reduction goal: reducing emissions to 80% below...

On a bright and early Saturday morning, Harvard’s Geological Lecture hall was filled with energetic and eager faces ready to learn. With a great program ahead, the seats were filled with people with thoughtful questions and an open mind ready to...

This blog post was originally published by the Worcester Tree Initiative. It is reposted here by permission of WTI and the author, Tom Valolic.

This post is adapted from a letter to Matthew Beaton, Secretary of Energy & Environmental Affairs sent February 8, 2018 by John Kyper, Co-Chair of the Transportation Committee. Thank you for inviting public comment on the proposed...

Late last year the City of Cambridge reported that the city’s tree canopy shrank by 6.7 percent between 2009 and 2014. This finding was based on an analysis of an aerial LiDAR survey by researchers at the University of Vermont and documented in a...

by Sonali Deshpande, Sierra Club Massachusetts Chapter internAs Abigail Dillen of Earthjustice put it,"When policy experts think about climate change, what they have in mind is a big coal-fired power plant or cars we drive or the freight that moves...

Starting out at the Sierra club, gas leaks seemed like a non-issue, something small and inconsequential when compared to the other issues I hoped to help tackle. I had an idea in my head that gas leaks were most likely rare and when they did exist,...