Massachusetts lawmakers are advancing a bill that would pull back major pieces of the state’s 2030 climate plan in the name of affordability. (Rhode Island Current)
The proposal would make the 2030 emissions target effectively optional if the state cites federal rollbacks as the cause of missed progress. It trims the Mass Save efficiency budget, downgrades its carbon-reduction requirements, and lowers the annual clean-energy purchases utilities must make through 2033.
It also delays offshore wind contracting, rewrites solar net-metering rules, and removes the requirement that regulators include the social cost of carbon when judging program cost-effectiveness.