Thank You Sen. Creem & MA Senate For Passing Sweeping Climate Legislation

The Massachusetts Senate just passed sweeping climate legislation. This is the third cutting-edge bill that will enable us to build up the clean power supply without taking a big toll on the household budget. Thank you Senator Creem for your pivotal roll in the Clean Heat parts of the Senate bill #S.2829. Now it is the House's turn.

Specifically, this bill will allow Massachusetts to install new solar, wind, and storage as well as charging electric vehicles and powering heat pumps. The bill qualifies moderate-income customers for discounted utility rates and delivers financial relief by curbing the current biases in state law that favor extending the natural gas system beyond its useful life. If signed into law, the legislation will also help us decarbonize buildings and our transit by expanding the mission of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to include carbon removal, embodied carbon, and nuclear power.

In other good news, the Senate unanimously passed the Affordable Homes Act (a Housing Bond bill) offering $150 million allocated for public housing decarbonization and $275 million allocated for green and sustainable housing initiatives.