Mike Barrett is State Senator for nine Massachusetts communities — Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston, and large parts of Lexington and Sudbury. Mike serves as Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. The committee’s jurisdiction covers everything from cell phones to alternative energy to public utility reform to carbon pricing.
In the Mass. House of Representatives, Mike chaired the body’s Environmental Caucus. Working with colleagues, he served as the House’s prime architect of the state’s Hazardous Waste Superfund statute. In the Senate he was lead sponsor of the state’s Toxic Use Reduction Act, for which he received a “Best Bets” award from the National Center for Policy Alternatives. In 1984 the Environmental Lobby of Massachusetts gave him its Special Achievement Award.