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Legislature amends climate bill, leaving its fate in Governor Baker’s hands – Boston Globe

August 1, 2022

The Legislature’s original bill would have allowed 10 communities — Cambridge, Newton, Brookline, Lexington, Arlington, Concord, Lincoln, Acton, Aquinnah, and West Tisbury — to adopt bans. To implement the bans, communities would first have to ensure at least 10 percent of their ...

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Massachusetts lawmakers OK compromise climate change bill – AP News

July 21, 2022

State Rep. Jeff Roy and State Sen. Mike Barrett, both Democrats, helped hammer out the compromise, combining elements of legislation approved separately by the House and Senate.“Massachusetts needs to open up huge new sources of green electric power if it’s to stay on course for ...

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Senate passes big climate bill focused on getting to net-zero – WBUR.org

April 15, 2022

"Last year's climate bill was about laying out a plan for tackling this formidable challenge of climate change. This year, in this legislation, we propose to begin to execute on the plan. If you like metaphors, last year was about laying out a roadmap, today we start traveling ...

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July 30, 2022 By Lily Barrett

Governor’s Climate Change Bill Amendments Make Passage Uncertain – NewBostonPost

“This looks to be a major rewrite. Hard to know what the two legislative branches will manage to agree on, in the time we have left,” state Senator Michael Barrett (D-Andover), a lead climate change negotiator, said in a text message to State House News Service. “This has already been a tough negotiation.”

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July 30, 2022 By Lily Barrett

More Work to Do on Major Mass. Climate Bill as Baker Makes ‘Major Rewrite’ – NBC Boston

His Senate counterpart, Sen. Mike Barrett, was a little less optimistic.

“This looks to be a major rewrite,” Barrett texted a News Service reporter. “Hard to know what the two legislative branches will manage to agree on, in the time we have left.”

“This has already been a tough negotiation,” Barrett added.

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July 29, 2022 By Lily Barrett

Massachusetts should require gun liability insurance – Boston Globe

Mandatory liability insurance for gun owners, requiring them to absorb the full costs associated with their gun ownership, would be a giant step forward in the Commonwealth to combat gun violence. “An Act to Require Liability Insurance for Gun Ownership,” sponsored by Representative David Linsky and Senator Michael Barrett, is currently up for debate in the next legislative session.

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July 29, 2022 By Lily Barrett

Mass. climate legislation in limbo as Baker files amendments – Boston Globe

[T]here’s little time left on the clock to pass a bill that advocates and legislators say is key to the state’s climate response. “There is quite a bit here, none of which appears to be good beach reading,” said Barrett. “The sheer density of it will complicate prospects for the two branches coming together.”

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July 27, 2022 By Lily Barrett

Governor should sign climate bill that would end gas-powered car sales in 2035 – Boston Globe

The Commonwealth’s push to encourage electric vehicles suffered a major setback last year, when a multistate agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks collapsed. That effort, spearheaded by Governor Charlie Baker, would have been a transformative program and could have cemented Baker’s own pollution-fighting legacy by speeding the Northeast’s transition away from planet-warming, gasoline-powered vehicles.

Now the Legislature has given Baker a second chance of sorts, sending him a climate bill with a potpourri of policy changes and one major deadline designed to reduce the Commonwealth’s greenhouse gas emissions — and a sizable new commitment to electric cars.

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Massachusetts just passed a massive climate and clean energy bill

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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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There’s plenty more to do, but nothing motivates like success.



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Some cities and towns will be allowed to ban fossil fuel infrastructure in new and major construction projects.

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Right back at you, @jeffroy. And now we wait.

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Grateful to my Senate co-chair @senatorbarrett for his thoughtful collaboration in helping to produce a bill that ensures that Massachusetts is poised to restore its position as the national leader on offshore wind and clean energy.

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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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Massachusetts needs to open up huge new sources of green electric power if it’s to stay on course for reducing emissions.



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Governor should sign climate bill that would end gas-powered car sales in 2035 - The Boston Globe

The climate bill that the Legislature sent to Governor Baker looks very different from the one he submitted. Still, he should sign it.

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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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