Legislative Advocacy

MIT alumni are actively reaching out to elected representatives and encouraging the legislative actions necessary to meet the challenges of climate change. Group members live in many states (see map below) and countries. To be added to the map below, MIT alumni should and then .

The MIT Alumni for Climate Action group supports legislation establishing a national goal for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or earlier (see H.R. 5221 and S. 3269). We also support state legislation mandating interim renewable energy targets as a step toward the net-zero goal.

Past effort has included legislative advocacy in Maryland and a new initiative is aimed at Florida. State petitions and federal climate bills are listed below. Additional information on carbon neutral goals are available on our pathways to net-zero carbon emissions page.

MACA state petitions

Florida Climate Letter - Sign Petition -

Maryland Climate Letter and Petition (2018)
Climate bills of interest

Clean Economy Act of 2019 (H.R.5221)
Clean Economy Act of 2020 (S.3269)

Recent climate bills passed

Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act (H.R. 4447) passed the US House of Representatives on September 24, 2020 - see our Tweet

Other climate bills of interest

Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020 (S.3894 and H.R.7393)
Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 (H.R.763)
Energy PRICE Act of 2019 (H.R. 5742)
Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2019 (S.940 and H.R.1960)
American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act of 2019 (S.1128)
Climate Action Rebate Act of 2019 (S.2284 and H.R.4051)
Stemming Warming and Augmenting Pay Act of 2019 (H.R.4058)
Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2019 (H.R.3966)
America Wins Act of 2019 (H.R.4142)
Modernizing America with Rebuilding to Kickstart the Economy of the Twenty-first Century with a Historic Infrastructure-Centered Expansion Act of 2019 (H.R.4520)
Carbon Reduction and Tax Credit Act (H.R.5457)
America’s Clean Future Act (S.4484)

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