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URGENT ACTION ALERT: Call your state rep today to stop energy-efficiency budget cuts

  This is another moment when a 1-minute call to your state representative could make a big difference:  Call your state rep and tell them you oppose huge cuts to the state's energy-efficiency program TODAY, before this afternoon's vote. BACKGROUND:   Many of you called back in November to help stop the Climate Rollback Bill (H.4744) that would have eliminated the state's 2030 climate and environment goals.   The bill has been redrafted and rushed through as the Energy Omnibus Bill ( H. 5151 ). Our partners from Mass Power Forward, the coalition of 250 groups throughout the state that we're part of, will be at the State House all day. Support them by calling your state representative now. The bill has many improvements, including ones we fought for, such as keeping 2030 climate goals and eliminating subsidies for biomass. But there's a giant poison pill: it would cut  $1 billion of the $1.5B MassSave budget.   If this cut goes through, it would gut energy e...

Top News | 'Call Your Members of Congress': Dems Urged to Oppose Any New Funds for Iran War

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  Friday, March 6, 2026 ■ Today's Top News  Jayapal Rips 'Cruel and Failing' US Policy After Trump Says 'Cuba Is Gonna Fall' Trump's threats against Cuba are "just a plain attempt to open up Cuban markets to his billionaire buddies," warned the Washington Democrat. By Julia Conley As the  Trump administration   celebrates  its broadly  unpopular  war on Iran—one in which an  estimated 1,332 people  have been killed in the country, including nearly 200  children  at a girls’ school—US Rep.  Pramila Jayapal  noted that President  Donald Trump  is still imposing a blockade on  Cuba  and denounced his stated plan to take over the island. “The US maximum pressure campaign on Cuba is a cruel and failing policy that has caused incredible harm to the Cuban people,”  said  Jayapal (D-Wash.). RECOMMENDED... Trump Now ‘Boasting of a War Crime’ as Cuba Suffers Under Oil Blockade Reporting Says Rubio ‘Deli...