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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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Senate plan pours $250 million into decarbonization movement with focus on transportation, energy – WickedLocal.com

April 8, 2022

Where the 2021 law “was and is about laying benchmarks,” the new bill “is about doing what needs to be done to hit those benchmarks,” said Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee Co-chair Sen. Michael Barrett. The bill would use $100 million to create a Clean Energy ...

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Mike speaks at Lexington Climate Strike, Sept. 2019. Photo by Wicked Local Lexington.

‘The most important issue of our time’: Mass. Senate unveils climate change legislation for electric vehicles, all-electric buildings – MassLive.com

April 7, 2022

“We know climate change is relentless, so Massachusetts needs to be relentless, too,” Barrett said. “No one’s going to give us an ‘A’ for effort — what matters are results. An Act Driving Climate Policy Forward pushes back against global warming on multiple fronts, with an ...

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April 1, 2018 By Lily Barrett

State Sen. Mike Barrett of Lexington home after six-week cancer treatment – Wicked Local Waltham

When State Sen. Mike Barrett left Massachusetts General Hospital on March 28, six weeks after being admitted, he knew exactly what topped his to-do list.

His first request: dinner and a movie with his wife, Nancy Dolberg. By Thursday, March 29, out they went to have pizza and to see “Black Panther” in Arlington.

“It was fantastic,” Barrett recounted. “It was everything I imagined it to be.”

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February 13, 2018 By Lily Barrett

State Senator Mike Barrett of Lexington is diagnosed with rare form of leukemia – The Boston Globe

“Because the white blood cell counts of APL patients are way below normal, infections such as the flu can have consequences,’’ said Barrett in his statement. “My doctors tell me I won’t be leaving the hospital for a month and that, for some additional period of time, I’ll need to avoid crowded situations where people may have bad colds, etc.”

“Unfortunately, my docs will not let me hop out of bed at Mass. General and head up Beacon Hill to vote in a packed chamber,” he said. “But otherwise, with the help of my fantastic staff, I expect to advance my legislative agenda quite effectively throughout my convalescence, and to resume my duties in full thereafter.”

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February 12, 2018 By Lily Barrett

Senate bond bill contains local earmarks – The Lowell Sun

The Senate’s $3.65 billion bond bill contains funding for regional courthouses, public safety facilities and equipment, according to local senators pleased with the measure that also includes authorizations for bonds to improve facilities statewide, including local colleges and universities, parks and public works.

For surrounding towns, Sen. Michael Barrett, D-Lexington, said the measure contains $3.5 million to expand and renovate the Bedford Police Station, $1 million to make playgrounds in Sudbury more accessible and $695,000 to replace firetrucks in Waltham.

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February 10, 2018 By Lily Barrett

Carbon pricing proposal moving through Legislature – The Lowell Sun

The bill, proposed by Sen. Michael Barrett, a Lexington Democrat and members of the Senate Global Warming and Climate Change Committee, would create a fee for fuels that contain carbon, like home heating and motor fuel. The money raised would be returned to residents and businesses in the form of rebates for adapting carbon-reducing measures.

Barrett told the Statehouse News Service that if the bill passes, the Legislature must select a carbon pricing scheme for transportation by 2020, for commercial and industrial buildings by 2021 and for residential buildings by 2022.

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February 7, 2018 By Lily Barrett

Net neutrality proponents consider state action – Wicked Local Lincoln

The Federal Communications Commission in December adopted an order repealing past rules that deemed internet service a public utility and required internet providers to treat all traffic equally. Daniel Lyons, a Boston College Law School professor, told lawmakers the order also “expressly preempts any state or local measures” attempting to reinstate those rules.

Noting that he pays between $50 to $60 per month for his Verizon internet access, Sen. Michael Barrett said he wanted the committee to figure out what would happen to the market without net neutrality if the legal challenges fail. He asked Healey if there is a way of “extracting any good” out of the rollback, such as lower prices for a “basic” package that could make technology more accessible to low income consumers.

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Driving Families Forward Coalition @DrivingMA4ward ·
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Thank you Senators @BarrettSenate, @Brady_Works, and @Sen_Chandler for #DrivingMAForward! #mapoli

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

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It was amazing to share the excitement with the @DrivingMA4ward coalition today as the @MA_Senate announced it will announced it will debate the Work & Family Mobility Act next week! Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard and so long to see this bill advance #mapoli

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Today at 2pm: a @BostonGlobe Sustainability Week Zoom discussion of our latest @BarrFdn climate poll, with:

@dharnanoor
@BarrettSenate
@richparr79
@Staci__Rubin @MariaBelenPower

Register here: https://climatechangeinmassachusetts.splashthat.com/

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Learn more about the results of this poll tomorrow in a virtual Sustainability Week event moderated by @dharnanoor with input from @MassINC, @BarrettSenate, @Staci__Rubin, and @MariaBelenPower: https://climatechangeinmassachusetts.splashthat.com/social https://twitter.com/shankman/status/1516350735239323654

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The scale and urgency of the climate crisis may be rising, but when @MassINCPolling asked Mass. residents about the issue, they found that fewer people said it was a "very serious" issue than in a poll 3 years ago. So what's going on? w/ @dharnanoor https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/19/science/earths-temperature-rises-massachusetts-residents-sense-urgency-climate-change-declines/?event=event25

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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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