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Advocates and Senator Miranda press committee to center environmental justice in clean-energy bills
Summary
VoteSolar and Senator Liz Miranda urged the committee to adopt clean-energy equity measures ensuring benefits reach environmental justice communities, including tenant protections, disaggregated benefit tracking and enforceable targets tied to emissions timelines.
Lindsay Griffin of VoteSolar and Senator Liz Miranda (Second Suffolk) urged the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy to advance bills that embed equity into clean-energy policy and ensure environmental-justice communities share program benefits.
"This bill is built on a simple principle that energy is a right and not a commodity," Lindsay Griffin testified in support of H 3540 / S 2303, which she said empowers the Undersecretary of Environmental Justice and Equity to…
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