A YEAR AGO,  President Biden signed into law the single most sweeping climate bill in American history. Supported by virtually the entire Democratic Party and environmental leaders like the Environmental Defense Fund, the Sierra Club and 350.org, the Inflation Reduction Act will lower carbon emissions and help us get closer to “net zero” by 2050. […]
Harry Brett
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Repurpose, don’t scrap, existing pipeline infrastructure
THE RACE to net zero emissions is on, and we have a lot of work to do to get there and not a lot of time to do it. Nowhere is that truer than here in Massachusetts, where the 2030 deadline to slash our emissions in half is bearing down on us. Now is no […]
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Call for net zero homes is too costly
MASSACHUSETTS IS POISED to adopt sweeping climate legislation that will set ambitious goals for the Commonwealth to reduce emissions by 2050. No one doubts the importance of this effort or the need to make commitments to the adoption of clean energy. The question, rather—particularly when it comes to housing—is how do we get there. For […]