Rapid Response! BAD ENERGY BILL- SIGN ON BY 2:30PM

[Katy Eiseman]

Please sign your orgs on here - TUE House Chair Cusack has developed a terrible bill that does include a couple of good things, alongside tons of terrible stuff, including the frigging "pipeline tax" ... 

AND if your rep is listed on the "to" line (i.e., is on TUE), PLEASE reach out to them directly today; and ask them to vote no! Thank you!

Katy

(413) 320-0747

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From: Claire Karl Müller <cla...@uumassaction.org>
Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Subject: [MPF Leader Team] SIGN ON BY 2:30PM
To: mapowerfwd <mapow...@googlegroups.com>

We will only send this letter if it has enough sign ons to be powerful.

We are calling on House TUE members to stop this bill from moving forward. They will decide by 4pm today.

Sign on here: https://forms.gle/jEimQUcKdV5aw2r17

More Context here in the toolkit.

Chair Cusack of the House Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy (TUE) Committee has written a costly climate rollback bill. It guts landmark Massachusetts clean energy and climate policies. It reeks of the MAGA mentality. It is divisive. Right now, for-profit utilities like Eversource and National Grid are ripping us off for their corporate profits and keeping us deeply dependent on expensive gas.

We know clean energy and efficiency are bedrock affordability programs, protecting families and communities. This moment calls for unity and vision for our future. It's time to be moving forward, not rolling back.

CALL TO ACTION: Which is why we are calling Representatives to vote no on this bill.

TUE House Chair Cusack is repealing our critical state commitments to climate pollution reductions. The bill is now (as of 11/10) in the hands of the TUE committee members. With the support of House leadership, this bill will move quickly and could come to the floor of the chamber for a vote in days. We know they want to vote before November 19th, when the legislature breaks for Thanksgiving.

Based on our rapid reading and sense from experts this bill does the following awful things:

• Rolls back 2030 climate goals rollback

• Guts Mass Save, removing decarbonization and electrification from its directive, reducing its budget, and adding incentives for gas furnaces back into the bill

• Reduces the Renewable Portfolio Standard (clean energy requirement) from 3-1% growth each year

• Removes a moderate-income discount electric rate that would save people money

• Adds ‘cost effectiveness” tests to everything, and removes the social cost of carbon from calculations, putting a finger on the scale against climate solutions in short-term benefits 

• Prevents pollution reduction payments (alternative compliance payments) from going to clean energy projects

• Creates a “pipeline tax” - charging electric customers for gas pipeline supply.

• Repeals a landmark protection from new nuclear power facilities

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Claire Karl B.W. Müller (they/them)

Movement Building Director

Unitarian Universalist Mass Action Network

781-775-1429 (cell) 

P.O. Box 300159, 655 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130-9998

We acknowledge that we are on the unceded territories of the Massachusett, Mohican, Nauset, Nipmuc, Pawtucket, Pennacook, Pokanoket, Pocumtuc, Wabanaki Confederacy and Wampanoag peoples as well as honoring and recognizing the Black and African people whose unpaid and forced labor built this country and our state. We celebrate and work in solidarity with BIPOC organizations leading the movement for our collective liberation in line with our 8th Principle commitment.

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