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Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. |
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This week, a Massachusetts initiative designed to save ratepayers money and boost energy efficiency could soon add new verification requirements to certain benefits. The House and Senate have both advanced legislation that would reform Mass Save, a program facing blowback for its perceived bloat. The proposed change would apply only to consumers in some of the poorest parts of the state. Jordan Wolman breaks down the potential impacts of the changes. |
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Plus, a ruling in the state's highest court highlights rising tensions over local control between renewable energy developers and the small Massachusetts communities where they're trying to build; lawmakers are working to build a unified response to Big Tech that tackles data privacy, cell phone bans in schools, and social media regulations; the Senate wants to allow duplexes on all residential lots and undo the right to single-family zoning amid a statewide housing shortage; and the immigrant-rich sanctuary city of Chelsea receives “All-America" award for the second year in a row. |
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Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. |
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— The CommonWealth Beacon team |
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| | The change under consideration by the Legislature would impose new income verification requirements on only the moderate-income customers in the state’s 21 designated equity communities. |
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| | The case before the justices laid bare the rising tensions over local control between solar developers and small communities across the state that are potential prime spots for large solar arrays thanks to their relatively cheap and abundant land. |
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| | With a bevy of bills in play, legislators need to figure out not just which policies they want to advance to protect user data and shield minors from addictive feeds, but which vehicles will host the proposed reforms. |
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| | The Senate’s economic development bill, which lawmakers have teed up for a vote next week, includes a provision that would require municipalities to allow duplexes as-of-right on all residentially zoned lots. |
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| | Nearly half of Chelsea’s predominantly Latino population was born outside of the United States — the largest foreign-born population of any community in Massachusetts. The city’s award application highlighted its community-centered policing, food distribution system, and youth development initiatives – efforts that have helped strengthen residents’ trust in local government amid a federal immigration crackdown that has had Chelsea in its crosshairs, according to city officials. |
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Starting in 2024, a group of 10 Massachusetts communities kickstarted a first-of-a-kind experiment by pledging to go fossil fuel free. But moving off gas for new buildings doesn’t preclude the utilities from needing to spend tens of millions of dollars each year upgrading the existing infrastructure by replacing pipes. This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporters Hallie Claflin and Jordan Wolman discuss Wolman’s latest piece uncovering how gas companies have spent $100 million on natural gas infrastructure in nine of those 10 communities, roughly since they adopted their fossil fuel-free ordinances. |
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