Advocacy
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From defending endangered species to reducing climate change impacts, one of the most effective ways to protect the nature of Massachusetts is through sound environmental policy.
Mass Audubon’s Advocacy department works with other conservation organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.
Each session, Mass Audubon identifies a number of important environmental bills as policy priorities. Find out which ones we’re working on now, what you can do to help, and our position on other critical state and federal issues. Learn More >
Mass Audubon is undertaking a multi-pronged policy approach to address climate change: assisting with drafting legislation, advising state and national panels, supporting regulatory reform, and encouraging action at the local level. Learn More >
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Get tips for contacting your legislators and find out more about important environmental legislation and policies. Learn More >
Mass Audubon created this program specifically to help the fastest-developing communities in Massachusetts chart a more sustainable future. Learn More >
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Our department serves as a leader in advocating for strong conservation laws and programs, and public participation is the key to accomplishing Mass Audubon's objectives at the State House. The Advocacy department has offices at Broad Meadow Brook in Worcester, where our Shaping the Future of Your Community program is based, and at Mass Audubon’s headquarters in Lincoln, where we focus on sustainable development and other statewide policy issues.
Mass Audubon has been working to oppose a damaging expansion in offshore oil and gas drilling proposed by the Trump Administration, since the extraction of oil and gas through our oceans would have severe impacts on fisheries, wildlife habitat, and geological resources. We had some good news earlier this year when components of the plan […]
One More Way to Help Wildlife Here’s another way you can help stop the recent federal Endangered Species Act rollbacks! Join our Coalition in asking your congressperson and senators to pass legislation restoring the ESA. Offshore Wind Update This week, the state will release public bids received for their second-round procurement of up to 800 […]
Save the Endangered Species Act The federal Endangered Species Act is one of America’s most successful conservation laws, and it’s under threat. The Trump Administration has finalized changes that will significantly weaken protection for vulnerable species, but you can help fight them. Rallying Support for Vineyard Wind Vineyard Wind would be the first US industrial […]