Massachusetts

The New England Aquarium has taken an activist stance on climate change and has worked with Massachusetts state legislators to file bills dealing with ocean conservation science, blue workforce development, and carbon sequestration. In 2022, the Aquarium’s lobbying firm was the Dewey Square Group, which also lobbied on behalf of Enbridge.

Enbridge operates the largest network of fossil-fuel carrying pipelines in North America and has lobbied to export Canadian tar sands oil through New England. This oil has been called some of the dirtiest oil in the world and these tar sands represent one of the world’s biggest unexploded “carbon bombs,” a resource whose development would jeopardize any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5° C.