The fight brewing over Gov. Healey’s energy affordability bill
DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, THE ARTICLE BELOW WAS NOT POSTED, BUT THERE IS A LENGTHY HISTORY OF ATTEMPTS TO SLASH ENERGY
FUNDING & MANDATES.
WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE DIRTY ENERGY CONSUMPTION REQUIRES ALL OF US!
CHINA IS PROMOTING CHEAP CLEAN SOLAR & SELLING PACKAGES THAT INCLUDE BATTERY BACKUP, IDEAL FOR POORER NATIONS THAT NEED DEPENDABLE ELECTRICITY- THEIR ECONOMY IS PROSPERING. THEY ARE REDUCING THEIR CONSUMPTION & CLEANING UP THEIR ENVIRONMENT WE NEED TO DO THE SAME!
REP MARK CUSACK'S LEGISLATIVE HISTORY IS AVAILABLE HERE:
REP. MARK J. CUSACK GENERAL COURT RECORD:
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CLIMATE: House members of a key legislative committee are forging ahead with a controversial bill that would defang the state’s 2030 emissions-reductions commitments. Jordan Wolman has the details.
CLIMATE: A major bill that would weaken the state’s 2030 climate mandates is officially on the move in the House after seven House Democrats on the energy committee voted to advance it. It’s a sign of the political muscle being exerted on Beacon Hill to soften the state’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and is throwing Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability legislation into disarray. Jordan Wolman has more.
MUST READ FOR LOTS OF FACTS & INFORMATION!
OPINION: Are the state’s ambitious 2030 climate commitments already out of reach? Rick Sullivan, a former state secretary of energy and environmental affairs and CEO of the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts, raises the question that’s reverberating around the State House right now.
COMMONWEALTH BEACON POSTED HERE:
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House climate bill is a huge step backward
Are the 2030 Massachusetts emissions mandates out of reach?
By Rick Sullivan
BELOW ARE 2 ARTICLES ADDRESSING THE PROPOSALS THAT WOULD
REDUCE/ELIMINATE CLEAN ENERGY LEGISLATION -- PLEASE READ TO
INFORM YOURSELVES & CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO OPPOSE THESE CHANGES DICTATED BY THE INDUSTRY!
I call your attention to these excerpts:
Our lawmakers must be clear on what’s really driving high energy costs: it’s not clean energy. It’s fossil fuels, gas infrastructure, and aging transmission systems. In 2023 alone, Massachusetts consumers spent $20 billion on energy in their homes and businesses. Programs like Mass Save delivered over $34 billion in savings between 2012 and 2023 and generated more than $3 for every $1 invested. The program is the only tool we have that actively reduces energy burden for all of us, including low- and moderate-income households that are hardest hit by rising energy costs. Mass Save has weatherized 350,000 homes (including 70,000 low-income homes), created nearly 76,000 jobs, and saved the equivalent output of five power plants. Even if you’ve never used it directly, you’ve benefited from lower wholesale energy prices because your neighbors did. These are real savings in people’s wallets. Only a year earlier, when the region’s peak electricity demand reached 18,300 megawatts on January 17, 2024, emissions averaged about 85 metric tons per minute most of the day. Why? Because natural gas was available. In a single year, a 10 percent increase in electricity usage drove up emissions by 60 percent.
With ratepayer-funded rebates encouraging installation of up to 500,000 heat pumps—which cost between $20,000 to $30,000 apiece—adding stress to our already overburdened electricity grid, the problem will only get worse and more expensive.
As bad as this all sounds—and it is bad—Gov. Healey is smart to leave all options on the table.
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BELOW ARE 2 ARTICLES ADDRESSING THE PROPOSALS THAT WOULD
REDUCE/ELIMINATE CLEAN ENERGY LEGISLATION -- PLEASE READ TO
INFORM YOURSELVES & CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO OPPOSE THESE CHANGES DICTATED BY THE INDUSTRY!
I call your attention to these excerpts:
Only a year earlier, when the region’s peak electricity demand reached 18,300 megawatts on January 17, 2024, emissions averaged about 85 metric tons per minute most of the day. Why? Because natural gas was available. In a single year, a 10 percent increase in electricity usage drove up emissions by 60 percent.
With ratepayer-funded rebates encouraging installation of up to 500,000 heat pumps—which cost between $20,000 to $30,000 apiece—adding stress to our already overburdened electricity grid, the problem will only get worse and more expensive.
As bad as this all sounds—and it is bad—Gov. Healey is smart to leave all options on the table.
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