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April 6, 2021 By Lily Barrett

After passing a landmark climate law, Mass. officials now face the hard part: how to wean the state off fossil fuels – The Boston Globe

After months of pressing Baker to sign the climatebill, Barrett said he’s now focusing on ensuring his administration implements it.

He has threatened legal action if the administration seeks to “evade legislative intent and substitute the weaker preferences of the executive branch.”

“It’s going to be a tough slog,” he said. “There’s no silver bullet here.”

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March 31, 2021 By Lily Barrett

Gov. Baker signed the climate bill, but there may be a hitch – The Barrett Report, March 2021

Mike surveying the throng at the Lexington Climate Strike, Sept. 2019

At the signing, the atmosphere was cordial. Still, peculiar. Why schedule this important ritual — putting the official touch on the most important climate legislation in Massachusetts in over a decade — on a Friday, at 2:30 in the afternoon? Why situate it in the lovely but bounded quarters of the State House Library, when several gorgeous and larger ceremonial spaces, big enough to accommodate social distancing, beckon just down the hall? Why issue no invitations at all to the advocacy organizations for climate policy, clean energy, and environmental justice, despite the pivotal roles they played?

And why, in his prepared remarks, did Gov. Baker spend so much time reprising and saluting the valuable yet more modest energy bills of years past, and so little time celebrating the content contained in the 114 sections of the legislation he had just signed?

I sense a problem, and I’m uneasy. I hope the Governor is not toying with the idea of slow-walking implementation of the bill. That would not do. Legislators like me will be watching too closely. I know many of you will, too.

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March 29, 2021 By Lily Barrett

Lexington Sen. Barrett’s climate bill signed at last – Lexington Minuteman

Sen. Michael Barrett, who led the negotiations for the Senate and said he is concerned that the Baker administration has tried to “evade legislative intent” of the new law, said Friday that everyone in state government now must start “pulling in the same direction” now that the work turns to implementation.

“The order of the day beginning tomorrow is ensuring interpretations of the law that are true to legislative intent and then overseeing implementation in a way that is true to legislative intent,” he said. “One reason I’ve been so concerned about the administration’s insistence on idiosyncratic readings of the new statute is that today’s abstract discussion segues over in tomorrow’s implementation. If the administration pushes back against the plain language of the law today, how are they going to implement it tomorrow?”

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MA enacted the Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy! This new law:
➡️ requires net-zero emissions by 2050
➡️ defines and requires protections for environmental justice communities

Learn more about the bill sponsored by @BarrettSenate

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NCEL Policy Spotlight: Massachusetts Advances Net-Zero Emissions Bill – National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (NCEL)

Massachusetts Passes Net-Zero Emissions and Defines “Environmental Justice Communities,” Promoting Equitable Impacts...

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"Barrett said the new climate law requires the state Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs to provide lawmakers with an update on emissions levels every 18 months 'so that we're not looking at 2017 numbers in 2021.'"

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Old data slows climate change efforts

BOSTON — Massachusetts is pursuing one of the nation's most ambitious climate change plans that will require subst...

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Why does Senate President @KarenSpilka think the NextGen Climate Roadmap is "...ambitious, bold and nation-leading"?

@BarrettSenate walks us through it in his new op-ed and details why all residents should pay close attention to this huge moment. #mapoli

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Op-ed: Next Steps On MA's New Climate Law

State Sen. Michael Barrett (D-Sudbury) highlights important deadlines set by the new bill, and why citizens need to pay attention.

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After passing a landmark climate law, Mass. officials now face the hard part: how to wean the state off fossil fuels. #mapoli #NextGenClimate #ActOnClimate

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After passing a landmark climate law, Mass. officials now face the hard part: how to wean the state off fossil fuels - The Boston Globe

Some environmental advocates and lawmakers fear that continued investments in gas infrastructure could hinder the transition to renewable energy.

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"Barrett said the new climate law requires the state Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs to provide lawmakers with an update on emissions levels every 18 months 'so that we're not looking at 2017 numbers in 2021.'"

via @cmwadenews

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Mike Barrett

State Senator | Democrat | 3rd Middlesex District MA

Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln,
Waltham, Weston, and large parts of Lexington and Sudbury

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