When: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 10:00 AM - Noon EST. Where: Massachusetts State House, Room 222, Boston and online (see link below). What: Dr. Edwin Lyman, Nuclear Safety Director, Union of Concerned Scientists presents a program on "The Risks of Small Modular Reactors: Separating Fact From Fiction."
Hosted by The Commonwealth Coalition for Democracy and Safe Energy (CCfDSE)—committed to advancing clean and renewable energy, combating climate change, and making energy affordable. The CCfDSE invites our legislators and the public to this educational event about state energy policy around new nuclear power.
To join the meeting Download Microsoft Teams to your computer. Meeting ID: 285 080 433 289 3 Passcode: Ar9tz2tW Dial in by phone +1 617-865-5269,145741869# (Boston) Phone conference ID: 145 741 869#
Act Today to Protect our Future!
Keep Democracy Alive! Remove Section 45
Will Gov. Healey's poison pill become the poison pill of the MA legislation, bringing dirty nuclear back to the Commonwealth?
The Massachusetts House is moving very fast on bill H.4144, the legislation that would bring nukes back to Massachusetts and would end the required referendum for the people to decide whether they want a radioactive future.
Governor Healey’s energy bill, H.4144, contains some very good points. However, Section 45 repeals a 1982 state referendum law prohibiting construction of the new nuclear power reactors in MA without voter approval. This is a challenge to our fragile democracy.
We recognize the importance of advancing real clean and renewable energy solutions to combat climate change. These policies, though, should not come at the cost of sidelining democratic principles. This is an issue to be decided with robust public discourse and voter consent. In order to foster public trust, there must be transparency and inclusivity in determining our clean energy policy.
Don’t strip the people of their right to weigh in on this vital matter. Let us vote as codified in the 1982 law.
Whether you believe in nuclear power or not, the people must choose their future!
Contact all your representatives and senators to remove section 45 from H.4144. Tell all your friends and neighbors to do the same!
For talking points, please read the testimonial of CAN's Executive Director,
Deb Katz, by clicking on the image on the left below.
For more pointers and information about Healey's poison pill, please view this webinar, organized by Massachusetts Peace Action, co-sponsored by the Commonwealth Coalition For Democracy and Safe Energy: Meltdown of Democracy: Bringing Nukes Back Despite Statewide Vote Against Them.
A Case Study in Radioactive Waste Management
The nuclear industry and its politician-apologists claim that nuclear power is clean. Tell that to the communities that deal with its toxic legacy—radioactive waste!
All nuclear power stations create what the industry wants to call “low-level” waste. What’s in it? How radioactive is it? How dangerous is it? Where does it go? What happens when it gets there?
CAN is investigating the answers to these questions in collaboration with students and faculty from Worcester Polytech and UMass-Amherst. Take a look at the “storymap” here for the first installment of the story of low-level waste. And stay tuned for more!
The Enviro Show
The Ghost of Your Nuclear Past is lurking in various Northeastern States as we speak. Both NY Gov. Hochul & MA Gov. Healey are for it (a bit of irony on the latter: we are told Healey's parents allowed the Clamshell Alliance to camp on their land for a Seabrook anti-nuke action). The good news is The Clamshell Alliance is still alive and pushing back. Cliff McCarthy & Shel Horowitz of The Commonwealth Coalition for Democracy & Safe Energy join us for the details.
