Sustainable Marblehead has an Advocacy Committee that is dedicated to gaining deep knowledge of proposed legislation and regulatory policies that affect our mission on the local, state and national levels.

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The committee meets on a regular basis to identify those proposals which, if passed or adopted, would best advance the organization’s mission and the working groups’ initiatives.

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It acts by educating members and engaging working groups to support these proposals. The committee also works collaboratively with other like-minded organizations and advocates on behalf of Sustainable Marblehead-supported proposals with appointed and elected officials and legislative bodies.

  

The Advocacy Committee tracks the following issues and proposals on behalf of Sustainable Marblehead:

• All proposals relative to achieving net-zero carbon emissions

• Alternatives to the building of new fossil fuel infrastructure, including clean energy alternatives to the Peabody Peaker Plant in which the Town of Marblehead has invested

• Clean energy production and energy efficiency

• Clean transportation alternatives

• Clean air and water

• Reduction of plastics and pesticides

• Localization of food and energy production

• Environmental justice