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These Bills Need Your Support:
Representative Jim Hawkins of Attleboro has filed H.965 : An Act restricting the use of rodenticides in the environment. (The senate version is S.644). This bill seeks to restrict the use of all anticoagulant rodenticides (rat poisons that interfere with blood clotting). If your state representative or senator is not on the list of petitioners (If you click on the Bill # you will see the list) please contact them via phone, email or in person to ask for their support. Find your state legislator here
Brookline, Newbury, Newton, and Orleans have bills proposing to limit rodenticide use in their respective towns (S.26 for Brookline, H.975 for Newbury, S.552 for Newton, and H.995 for Orleans which includes most pesticides) that must be voted on by the entire state legislature. It’s important to get a commitment from Representatives and Senators throughout the State House to support these bills and to vote in their favor when they come up on the floor of their respective house or committee. The passage of of these bills could establish a legal precedent that would allow other municipalities to also regulate SGARs and other harmful pesticides.
As of March 10, 2025 the above bills have been referred to the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. We will have an opportunity to give written and verbal testimony once a hearing is scheduled. You can track these bills by setting up an account with LegiScan.
Senator Bruce Tarr ([email protected]) and Representative Kristin Kassner ([email protected]) representing Newbury are sponsors of HD 2508 (Newbury's home rule petition) and co-sponsors of H.965/S.644 (the Hawkins bill)
Meet with your State Representative
This is the most effective method of communication and easy to accomplish: Your Massachusetts Senators and Representatives (or their representative) keep open office hours in your town or you can make an appointment that is convenient for you.
Rep. Kristin Kassner ( [email protected]): Newbury Council on Aging, the second Monday of each month 10 am
To schedule a different time/day email: [email protected]
Sen. Bruce Tarr ([email protected]) : Newbury Council on Aging, the third Thursday of each month 12:15 pm
To schedule a different time/day email: [email protected]
If you don't live in Newbury you can Find your state legislator here.
Write a Letter/Email to your State Representative
We encourage you to write or call your state senator and state representative and request their support of these bills. When you write a letter/email include the following:
On the national level, please write to our US Representative Seth Moulton, as well as our US Senators, Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey.
Rep. Seth Moulton: https://sethmoulton.house.gov/email-me
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: https://www.warren.senate.gov/contact/shareyouropinion
Sen. Edward Markey: https://www.markey.senate.gov/contact/share-your-opinion
Requests for Moulton, Warren and Markey:
Representative Jim Hawkins of Attleboro has filed H.965 : An Act restricting the use of rodenticides in the environment. (The senate version is S.644). This bill seeks to restrict the use of all anticoagulant rodenticides (rat poisons that interfere with blood clotting). If your state representative or senator is not on the list of petitioners (If you click on the Bill # you will see the list) please contact them via phone, email or in person to ask for their support. Find your state legislator here
Brookline, Newbury, Newton, and Orleans have bills proposing to limit rodenticide use in their respective towns (S.26 for Brookline, H.975 for Newbury, S.552 for Newton, and H.995 for Orleans which includes most pesticides) that must be voted on by the entire state legislature. It’s important to get a commitment from Representatives and Senators throughout the State House to support these bills and to vote in their favor when they come up on the floor of their respective house or committee. The passage of of these bills could establish a legal precedent that would allow other municipalities to also regulate SGARs and other harmful pesticides.
As of March 10, 2025 the above bills have been referred to the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. We will have an opportunity to give written and verbal testimony once a hearing is scheduled. You can track these bills by setting up an account with LegiScan.
Senator Bruce Tarr ([email protected]) and Representative Kristin Kassner ([email protected]) representing Newbury are sponsors of HD 2508 (Newbury's home rule petition) and co-sponsors of H.965/S.644 (the Hawkins bill)
Meet with your State Representative
This is the most effective method of communication and easy to accomplish: Your Massachusetts Senators and Representatives (or their representative) keep open office hours in your town or you can make an appointment that is convenient for you.
Rep. Kristin Kassner ( [email protected]): Newbury Council on Aging, the second Monday of each month 10 am
To schedule a different time/day email: [email protected]
Sen. Bruce Tarr ([email protected]) : Newbury Council on Aging, the third Thursday of each month 12:15 pm
To schedule a different time/day email: [email protected]
If you don't live in Newbury you can Find your state legislator here.
Write a Letter/Email to your State Representative
We encourage you to write or call your state senator and state representative and request their support of these bills. When you write a letter/email include the following:
- Introduce yourself. Are you a longtime resident? Are you a bird watcher? Do you walk the back roads? Are you a nature lover? Do you have pets that go outside?
- The issue you are writing about: The use of SGARs (or rodenticides) and the detrimental effect on our wildlife and pets.
- What you want them to do: Co-sponsor the above bills
On the national level, please write to our US Representative Seth Moulton, as well as our US Senators, Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey.
Rep. Seth Moulton: https://sethmoulton.house.gov/email-me
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: https://www.warren.senate.gov/contact/shareyouropinion
Sen. Edward Markey: https://www.markey.senate.gov/contact/share-your-opinion
Requests for Moulton, Warren and Markey:
- to become a champion of this issue
- to work with other interested legislators to draft or sponsor propose legislation that would ban or heavily restrict the use and availability of AR poisons, both online and for use by pest control professionals
- to pressure the EPA to pass stricter regulations on anticoagulant poisons–or better yet–to ban them altogether and remove their registration as an available rodenticide
- to fight against efforts by conservative legislators to pass federal laws both independent of and in the 2025 Farm Bill that would stop states and local municipalities from being able to restrict or regulate pesticides, including anticoagulant rodenticides.
Join the EwA SGARs Brigade
Documenting & Assessing the Impact of SGARs on Non-Target Species
Help document the location of potential and confirmed SGARs bait devices, and sick or dead animals likely victims of SGARs in the Greater Boston Area (Massachusetts, U.S.). By doing so, you'll contribute essential data to raise awareness about the intersection of rodents, SGARs use, and wildlife victims and give open-access, evidence-based tools for communities to understand the spread and impact of SGARs and act accordingly. Learn more.
Documenting & Assessing the Impact of SGARs on Non-Target Species
Help document the location of potential and confirmed SGARs bait devices, and sick or dead animals likely victims of SGARs in the Greater Boston Area (Massachusetts, U.S.). By doing so, you'll contribute essential data to raise awareness about the intersection of rodents, SGARs use, and wildlife victims and give open-access, evidence-based tools for communities to understand the spread and impact of SGARs and act accordingly. Learn more.