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The time is NOW to stop new fracked gas pipelines in Massachusetts! The big utility companies are back. They won’t give up – they want YOU to pay for fracked gas pipelines that we don’t need, don’t want and can’t afford. And those pipelines would lock us into another 20-30 years of reliance on fracked gas that contributes to global warming. Take action today. Click below. Take action today! Tell your state senator to support S. 2302. Ban the pipeline tax, stop new pipeline construction, further cut emissions and reduce fossil fuel usage. Learn More CONSUMERSFORSENSIBLEENERGY.ORG Three billion dollars added to your energy bill to pay for a pipeline to carry fracked gas. A study commissioned by the Attorney General says we don't need it. So it's gas we don't need. A pipeline we don't want. Costs we can't afford. A pipeline carrying fracked gas to markets beyond Massachusetts. We'll pay. Someone else ...

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CLIMATE CHANGE politics — SPILKA secures Senate presidency — ‘14 GUN LAW had ‘little effect’ 03/22/2018 07:02 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) with Brent D. Griffiths ( bgriffiths@politico.com ; @BrentGriffiths) GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. CHARLIE BAKER: ALL FLUFF, NO SUBSTANCE! STORM POLITICS REPORT -  As a fourth winter storm knocks Massachusetts with more of a whisper than a wallop, the state House and Senate leaders of the committees on Global Warming and Climate Change say Gov. Charlie Baker's week-old $1.4 billion  environmental bond bill  (with $300 million for infrastructure and mitigation and prevention of climate change) doesn't go far enough to gird the state from the effects of climate change. And Senate chair Marc Pacheco specifically criticized the timing around Baker's proposals. "It's good optics, when you talk about politics, it all sounds good, but when you really have a ...

FROM BLUE MASS GROUP : Globe, put down the pipe March 6, 2018  By  Charley on the MTA   Leave a Comment Even yet still another baffling, curdled-milk editorial  endorsing more gas pipeline infrastructure, torching (see what I did there) us anti-pipeline “faddists”; and going so far as to flame Sens. Jamie Eldridge and Marc Pacheco and AG Healey, the Little Red Hens of renewable energy expansion and climate readiness. No. This is Orwellian and silly on the face of it. You cannot say “renewable energy is certainly the region’s future” while at the same time arguing for permanent fossil fuel infrastructure that lasts a generation (30-40 years), certainly crowding out renewables. LNG tankers, rail and trucks; oil-fueled peaker plants are a lot of things — maybe worse in the very short term — but none are permanent. Furthermore, Eldridge, Pacheco, and Healey are hardly “sitting on their hands” as the Globe preposterously accuses; they are pulling the weight,...