“This is carbon pricing,” State Senator Mike Barrett said, “and the idea is to make it a little more expensive to pollute, a little more expensive to buy something that results in the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — which is the greenhouse gas that causes climate change — make it a little more expensive to do all that, but then you send the money back so that you spend it on something less polluting.”
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Statewide Listening Tour Recap — The Barrett Report, March 2015
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Mass. can lead on greenhouse gas reduction – The Boston Globe
In the Boston Globe, Mike Ross writes on my bill to combat climate change by pricing carbon:
“The idea of a lone state like Massachusetts getting out ahead of the rest of the country and leading a program of this magnitude might strike some as incredulous. But this is precisely what the Commonwealth has been doing on a host of issues — from marriage equality to health care. Being ahead of the curve is a good thing, especially when our future depends on it.”
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Time to pass measures to ease challenges of the long-term unemployed – The Boston Globe
Joan Cirillo, President and CEO of Operation A.B.L.E., makes the case for two bills Barrett has filed. Read the editorial…
Statewide Listening Tour Kicks Off — The Barrett Report, Feb. 2015
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