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January 30, 2018 By Lily Barrett

Is Massachusetts ready for carbon pricing? – MIT News

On Jan. 25, a panel at MIT explored the benefits, costs, and political challenges involved in translating carbon pricing from concept into law in Massachusetts and beyond. Hosted by the student-led MIT Climate Action Team and held at the MIT Stata Center, the panel disucssion included Massachusetts state Sen. Michael Barrett and state Rep. Jennifer Benson, authors of two different carbon-pricing bills; Marc Breslow, research and policy director of the carbon-pricing research and advocacy group Climate XChange; and three experts on the topic who are affiliated with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change — Department of Urban Studies and Planning Associate Professor Janelle Knox-Hayes, Joint Program Co-director and Sloan School of Management Senior Lecturer John Reilly, and Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Director and MIT Sloan Professor Christopher Knittel. The panelists weighed advantages and disadvantages of carbon pricing as a climate-change solution, clarified differences between the two pending bills, and discussed political challenges faced by these bills.

“The most progressive thing to do if you care about working people is to have absolute revenue neutrality,” said Barrett, who, like Knittel, argued that solar and other renewable energy programs could best be funded through a progressive income tax. “I want to make sure that 100 percent of a carbon fee goes back to working people.” Concerned that a revenue-positive carbon pricing bill would be framed by opponents as a tax, he cautioned that such a bill would be politically unviable for fellow legislators.

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Overturning Roe leaves a permanent stain on the U.S. Supreme Court. At least we saw this coming. In anticipation, the Massachusetts State Senate just approved an additional $2 million for abortion care and support services. Massachusetts needs to be a safe haven state, a source of help for women who may come to us from other places for abortion services. ... See MoreSee Less

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If the Court reverses Roe, it will be its most consequential opinion of the past 50 years and leave a permanent stain on the institution. We will be dealing with the implications — the personal ones for families and the political ones for the country — for decades. ... See MoreSee Less

With Supreme Court poised to overturn abortion rights, activists in Massachusetts voice outrage and resolve - The Boston Globe

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If the Court reverses Roe, it will be its most consequential opinion of the past 50 yrs & leave a permanent stain on the institution. We will be dealing with the implications—the personal ones for families & the political ones for the country—for decades.

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Senators took a major step toward achieving the net-zero emissions limit they already set for Massachusetts by approving a policy-heavy bill aimed at expanding the clean energy industry and reining in emissions from the transportation and building sectors.

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Senate passes big climate bill focused on getting to net-zero

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Happening now: @MA_Senate debates An Act driving climate policy forward.

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Senate President Karen Spilka in recent weeks at hinted at upcoming climate change legislation to coincide with Earth Day.

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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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