Climate Hawk’s Companion - the Massachusetts Clean Energy Plan

This edition of “A Climate Hawk’s Companion” focuses on the state’s Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020. The plan puts Massachusetts into a leadership role among all fifty states in developing concrete plans for addressing greenhouse gas emissions. Click on the picture over there on the left and listen to the podcast to get some background on the plan, and then explore the links. The Executive Summary and full report of the Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020 are available at the links. If you aren’t prepared for that much reading, a couple of slide show presentations by Mr. Steve Clark and Mr. David Cash give you the main ideas with a lot less words.  Here's a link to the website of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. This office was created early in the Romney administration, and reflects our state’s long-standing bipartisan commitment to wise environmental policies. A description of the Green Communities Act is here, and here is the Global Warming Solutions Act, and Mass DEP's GWSA page. An Environmental Defense Fund report on the Obama fuel standards and an introduction to HydroQuebec are available. The Boston-based think-tank MassInc commissioned an assessment of the Clean Energy Plan. Here is our own blog on the release of this assessment report from last April. The assessment, entitled Rising to the Challenge will be the topic of the next edition of “A Climate Hawk’s Companion” podcast. Stay tuned!