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There’s a lot of chatter right now about the high costs of energy, and rightly so. The rising expenses of gas infrastructure are hitting everyone. Clean Water Action and our climate and labor partners wanted to dig deeper into how this is impacting real Massachusetts neighbors, particularly folks in Environmental Justice communities, so we launched two statewide surveys to learn more about the most pressing energy issues our communities face.

It has been an unusually warm winter in the Western United States, allowing meteorologists to coin the delightful and descriptive phrase “snow drought.” California is more fortunate than other western states — after three consecutive years of robust rain and snowfall, our reservoirs began the winter