A small crowd of climate activists marched through the State House Thursday morning, chanting about lawmakers' failure to strike a deal on a clean energy bill deemed urgent and essential by same the very lawmakers who could not agree on a mutually acceptable version.
Climate protesters held up signs outside the Senate chamber as the branch adjourned on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024.
As the Senate adjourned at around 10 a.m., members of the climate advocacy organization 350 Mass and the Mass Power Forward coalition held up signs outside the chamber that read"failure of leadership" and"climate change doesn't wait." The activists made their way up to the fourth floor and were later chanting outside the empty House chamber.
"They love to look like they're taking action on climate," Zackin told the News Service."When it actually comes to phasing out fossil fuels, they don't do it. And there were major provisions in the Senate side of the climate omnibus bill that would have done that. They would have phased out fossil fuels in an orderly way that prioritizes gas workers to make sure that we have a truly just transition, and our legislators chose not to do that.
"There's a culture in the building of, 'We don't yell, we don't shout, we play by the rules, we play very nicely.' And it's important for there to be vocal, loud disagreement with that, saying that this is not OK," Zackin said, adding activists came to Beacon Hill to express their"rage."
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