Free webinar 4/30/25, Know Your Air: Updates from the Healthy Air Network
April 15, 2025
Join us for an engaging webinar hosted by the Healthy Air Network—a coalition working to improve air quality, boost climate resilience, and promote environmental justice across Massachusetts.
Learn about their:
- Newly redesigned website
- Expansion efforts into Franklin County, North Quabbin, and eastern Mass
- Transportation work
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The Springfield City Council and Springfield Zoning Board of Approvals, represented by the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), asked the state’s Supreme Judicial Court to review a decision that revived building permits for the controversial Palmer Renewable Energy biomass facility in Springfield. Read CLF's press release for more information. Community groups and health advocates have been fighting against this proposed plant for more than a decade. Burning biomass, like wood, pollutes our air with particulate matter, contributing to asthma and other serious health issues. The Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts recently joined CLF and more than 86 other organizations urging MA lawmakers to end public subsidies for biomass energy. Act Now! Tell the Massachusetts Legislature to take dirty biomass out of our clean energy programs!
