Emitting carbon would come with a new price in Massachusetts and the state would embark on a more aggressive timeline for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions under a bill that overwhelmingly passed the state Senate Jan. 30.
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State Senate Approves Climate Policy – The Millbury-Sutton Chronicle
The Massachusetts State Senate recently advanced three bills that boldly tackle the contributing factors of climate change, chart one of the most aggressive courses of action against global warming in the country, and pave the way for a clean energy future for all of its residents.
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Episode 117: From Net-Zero to Hero – The Horse Race
[The bills] include, among other things, the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, which, Sen. Barrett describes as, “a very ambitious goal.” He said, “It puts Massachusetts right where the United Nations body wants the world to be, and in that sense we are offering world leadership.”
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After Months of Urging Senate to Take Action, Taunton Senator Lauds Passage of Climate Change Bills – Taunton Daily Gazette
“Together the three really do constitute an historic new moment in the fight against climate change,” Sen. Michael Barrett (D- Lexington), who chairs the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee, said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
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Poll Surveyed Public Opinion on Climate Change – Wicked Local
BOSTON, FEB. 3, 2020…..A majority of Massachusetts residents anticipate a need for “major” state and federal policy changes to stop climate change, and 70 percent think they’ll need to make at least moderate changes to how they live, according to new poll results.
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