From Erica Mattison of Environmental League of Massachusetts:

Dear Green Budget Endorsers,

Recently I emailed you to encourage you to contact your State Rep to ask them to include a Green Budget line-item in their requests to leadership. Now it's time to lobby our Senators!

Each year as the Senate Committee on Ways and Means is working on crafting its budget, State Senators meet with the Chairman (now Chairwoman Spilka) to communicate their top budget priorities -- often just a couple of items. These meetings have started, so this is a good time for us to let them know we want them to prioritize Green Budget items. Below is the list I sent to several Senators.

Please take a moment to send an email or make a phone call to your State Senator to ask him/her to select a Green Budget priority to include in their list of budget priorities they share with Senate leadership. See below for list of priority line-items; it is shaped by our analysis of the Governor's budget, which he released on Wednesday.

Thank you for your advocacy!

Erica Mattison, MPA, JD
Legislative Director
Environmental League of MA
emattison@environmentalleague.org
617-742-2553
http://environmentalleague.org/
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Here are a few of the line-items we outline in the report that we consider to be high priorities (listed by line-item number):

2000-0101 Climate Change Adaptation & Preparedness (EEA)

• FY16 Recommended funding: $2M
• FY2015 funding: $1M
• FY15 funding after 9C cuts: $731,500
• Governor's budget: $300,000

2200-0100 Administration (DEP)

2800-0101 Watershed Management/Office of Water Resources (DCR)

2810-0100 State Parks and Recreation (DCR)

2810-2042 Retained Revenue (DCR)