Green Energy Consumers

AUGUST 6, 2024

If you are reading this, you probably know that the Massachusetts legislature failed to produce a climate bill by the 2023/2024 session’s deadline of July 31. They even suspended their rules and went into August 1st but to no avail.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 22, 2022

On Thursday, the Massachusetts House and Senate both passed a major new climate bill, An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind. The legislation now goes to Governor Baker for signature.

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Massachusetts Climate Wind Cleaning 133

Green Energy Consumers

MAY 23, 2025

For the past several weeks, weve been working hard on a campaign to protect key regulations, called Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII), which would have steadily increased the supply of electric vehicles (EVs) available to drivers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, such that 100% of new car sales would have to be electric by 2035.

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Rhode Island Massachusetts Electric Cars Cars 93

Green Energy Consumers

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

On November 14 th the House and Senate passed Massachusetts’ latest climate law which is a compromise of bills passed by the two chambers earlier in the year.

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Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A few weeks ago, we celebrated the passage of the 2024 climate bill in Massachusetts, An Act promoting a clean energy grid, advancing equity and protecting ratepayers , and wrote about its provisions related to reforming natural gas utilities, procuring battery storage, and siting and permitting.

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Massachusetts Climate Transportation Energy Grid 103

Green Energy Consumers

JUNE 21, 2024

The Massachusetts State Senate was planning on voting on a major energy and climate bill this week but a Republican Senator has exercised their right to delay the vote. The Senate will now probably vote on Monday, June 24.

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Massachusetts Climate Energy 108

Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 18, 2024

On February 7th, Massachusetts State Representatives on the Telecommunications, Utility, and Energy Committee (TUE) led by Representative Roy, House Chair of the Committee, sent several climate and energy bills forward to the next step of the legislative process, the House Ways and Means Committee.

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Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 15, 2025

A coalition of twelve environmental and clean energy organizations 1 , including Rewiring America, Acadia Center, Green Energy Consumers Alliance, Sierra Club, and Environmental Defense Fund, recently submitted a letter strongly supporting the Department of Public Utilities' (DPU) draft policy to end gas line extension allowances (LEAs)subsidies that (..)

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Massachusetts Gas Sierra Cleaning 101

Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 18, 2025

Climate change is the greatest threat to natural landscapes, marine ecosystems, and fishing industries in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Narragansett Bay has already warmed by nearly 3F since 1960. These changes will drastically alter the fishing industry and the economy.

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Rhode Island Wind Climate Change Massachusetts 110

Green Energy Consumers

MAY 13, 2025

On Wednesday, May 14, the energy committee in the Massachusetts legislature will hold a hearing on bills related to electric transportation including four bills that would push back or remove altogether the deadline to phase out new gas-powered cars in Massachusetts and weaken the primary tool we have to facilitate this transition.

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Massachusetts Cleaning Clean Cars 64

Green Energy Consumers

JULY 14, 2022

This blog covers strategies outlined in Massachusetts’ final Clean Energy and Climate Plan (CECP) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the buildings sector. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents to Massachusetts’ emissions in 1990, or about 15% of total GHG emissions.

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Massachusetts Climate Cleaning Clean 102

Green Energy Consumers

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Despite the fact that they get the lion's share of coverage in the media, announcements of new climate programs by Governor Healey or clean energy laws passed by the State House are just pieces of paper.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 14, 2022

This blog covers strategies outlined in Massachusetts’ final Clean Energy and Climate Plan (CECP) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the electric power sector. For the rest of this decade, we will need to build on and accelerate that progress to meet the GHG reductions required by the Climate Roadmap bill that passed in 2021.

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Massachusetts Climate Cleaning Clean 101

Green Energy Consumers

JULY 14, 2022

This blog covers strategies outlined in Massachusetts’ final Clean Energy and Climate Plan's (CECP) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector. For more background on the CECP for 2025 and 2030, read this blog.

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Massachusetts Transportation Climate Cleaning 102

Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2021, Governor Baker signed comprehensive climate legislation called An Act Creating a Next Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 1, 2024

And they are authorizing the Department of Public Utilities to regulate gas utilities in alignment with our climate mandates. They’re doing the right thing for consumers by banning retail electricity suppliers. They’re supporting EV adoption.

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Climate Massachusetts Grid Gas-Electric 111

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Climate XChange, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Massachusetts, is raffling off a Tesla Model S or X valued at $110,450 on 31 December with the intention of raising awareness of carbon pricing in a push for economy-wide carbon pricing in the Commonwealth.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 14, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) released the final draft of the Clean Energy and Climate Plan (CECP) for 2025 and 2030.

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Massachusetts Climate Cleaning Clean 95

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

An international team of researchers has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland—the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ)—that could significantly influence the ocean’s response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways. —Robert Pickart.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2020

s Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus powered by Proterra electric vehicle technology ( earlier post ) and the Proterra 60kW charging system for deployment with the Beverly Public Schools, in Beverly, Massachusetts. Highland Electric Transportation has selected Thomas Built Buses Inc.’s

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All the participating jurisdictions are members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional collaboration of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 26, 2023

Last year, Massachusetts passed a monumental climate law, An Act Driving Clean Energy & Offshore Wind. Among very many other things, the climate law called for significant changes to the state rebate program for electric vehicles, MOR-EV. Now we have learned that several more will come into effect on July 1.

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Massachusetts Electric Cars Climate Wind 105

Green Energy Consumers

AUGUST 11, 2023

Massachusetts just announced three new changes to the state rebate program for electric cars, MOR-EV , that will make electric vehicles (EVs) more accessible to more people in Massachusetts. All three changes stem from last year’s climate law, which included several provisions to make EV access more equitable in the Commonwealth.

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Massachusetts Electric Cars Cars Climate 98

Green Energy Consumers

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In Rhode Island, that’s the Public Utilities Commission (PUC); in Massachusetts, that’s the Department of Public Utilities (DPU). In our work, we pay close attention to the agencies regulating the electric and gas utilities. Both commissions have always had a big job – regulating what economists call "natural monopolies."

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Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 22, 2023

Per the Clean Energy & Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 , Massachusetts must reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector 34% by 2030 for the economy as a whole to cut emissions in half compared to 1990.

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Massachusetts Transportation Climate Economy 103

Green Energy Consumers

JUNE 20, 2022

The Massachusetts legislature, meanwhile, isn’t considering a Renewable Portfolio Standard update in the climate bills that have been passed by the MA House and Senate and are currently being negotiated in the conference committee.

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Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 3, 2025

(Rhode Islanders this is a story about Massachusetts, but it applies to the Ocean State just as well, given the Act on Climate.) Mass Save is the Commonwealths major energy efficiency program. Its jointly administered by the investor-owned gas and electric utilities and the Cape Light Compact.

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Green Energy Consumers

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For many years, there has been a lot going on in terms of Massachusetts energy and climate policy, but this year may top them all.

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Massachusetts Cleaning Clean Energy 100

Green Energy Consumers

JUNE 30, 2021

As mayors representing a diverse group of communities across Massachusetts, we are in a unique position to be on the front lines of how the big global issues manifest from block to block in our neighborhoods. One of the many ways we see this is in how our residents want to power their homes and businesses.

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Massachusetts Cleaning Clean Energy 104

Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 25, 2023

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released it s most recent report , which states in no uncertain terms that we need to increase the pace of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. To avoid the worst effects of climate change, the IP CC report said we must reduce carbon emissions by two thirds by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2009

The Commonwealth’s Clean Energy Biofuels Act, signed in July 2008, also required Massachusetts to seek an agreement with its fellow RGGI member states to implement a LCFS on a regional basis. The regional LCFS initiative is being coordinated by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).

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Carbon Fuel Massachusetts Emissions 210

Green Energy Consumers

JULY 13, 2023

Last year’s climate law in Massachusetts set up an Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Coordinating Council (EVICC) that has been meeting since the spring to prepare a report on the Commonwealth’s electric vehicle (EV) charging needs. This month, EVICC is hosting two public hearings for residents to share their experiences and needs.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 18, 2024

House of Representatives passed a climate bill. On July 17th, the Mass. This sets the stage for reconciliation with the bill passed by the State Senate on June 25th. This must happen before the legislative session ends on July 31.

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Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 22, 2024

As the New York Times put it, “in terms of lowering the emissions that are heating the planet, this regulation does more than any other climate rule issued by the federal government and more than any measure planned in the remainder of Mr. Biden’s first term."

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Rhode Island Massachusetts EPA Standards 101

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area. Audi was among the first automotive manufacturers to publicly support and align its actions with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On November 30, the Massachusetts Clean Heat Commission released its long-awaited report with recommendations for “strategies and policies to achieve deep emissions reductions from heating fuels in the state.”

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Massachusetts Cleaning Clean Emissions 110

Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Utility-supplied natural gas (methane) is the primary heating fuel in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island, supplying 52% and 54% of homes, respectively. Given their mandates to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, both states are exploring strategies to transition away from their prevalent gas distribution systems.

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