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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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Massachusetts needs to open up huge new sources of green electric power if it’s to stay on course for reducing emissions. The compromise aims to ramp up clean power, especially offshore wind but also solar, storage and networked geothermal, and run it through cars, trucks, buses, and buildings, the biggest sources of emissions in the state. ... See MoreSee Less

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Monday morning, 8am. We’ve been in continuous session since 11 am yesterday morning. A very strong climate bill for MA, the second in as many years, is now on the Governor’s desk. There is something literal to this, in that the final step a bill takes out of the Legislature…
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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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