Caba Staff
Romney’s Climate Record: Binder Full of Flip Flops
by MARIA VIRGINIA OLANO POLICY AND RESEARCH FELLOW After much speculation, former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney announced last week that he is running for a Senate seat in Utah. Romney has constantly shifted his stance on climate...
TRUMP’S INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN MISSES THE MARK ON CLIMATE RESILIENCY
by MARIA VIRGINIA OLANO POLICY AND RESEARCH FELLOW President Trump released the full text of his infrastructure proposal to congress on Monday, in a plan that aims to ‘stimulate’ $1.5 trillion in new investment over the next ten years to revamp...
Maura Healey: The Emerging Clean Energy Champion
By Tim Cronin, Policy Associate Anyone following Massachusetts politics has undoubtedly come across Attorney General Maura Healey. Young and progressive, Healey has cut her teeth in the early days of the Trump administration, leading multi-state legal challenges in support of DACA,...
Future of Winter Olympics Skating On Thin Ice
Future of Winter Olympics Skating On Thin Ice by AMANDA GRIFFITHS Winning gold at the Olympics is touted as the pinnacle of athletic achievement. Every four years, we hear stories of athletes’ endurance and perseverance while we watch all of their dedication...
The State of Solar Shingles
by KYLE PENNELL When Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the birth of the Tesla Solar Roof last year, it was greeted with enthusiasm by the entire solar market. A photovoltaic solar system in the form of roof tiles, invisible to the...
N.H. Committee Rejects Northern Pass Project
by TIM CRONIN On Thursday night the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (NH-SEC) voted overwhelmingly to deny a necessary permit to Eversource’s Northern Pass project. This throws the future of the project, and the larger Massachusetts Clean Energy procurement, into question. What is...
Trump’s State of the Union: Still Ignoring the Reality of Climate Risks
by MARIA VIRGINIA OLANO President Donald Trump began his first State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night by lamenting the myriad of climate disasters that struck the nation in 2017. “We endured floods and fires and storms” he...
Will Solar Industry Weather Trump Administration’s Import Tariff?
by AMANDA GRIFFITHS and RYAN MAIA Last Thursday, CABA hosted its Third Annual Massachusetts State of Solar. Our solar panel for the evening consisted of State Senator Jamie Eldridge, President of Isaacson Political Consulting Arline Isaacson, and Greentech Media Analyst Austin...
Press Conference: Announcing The Carbon Costs Coalition and Growing Business Support
by MARIA VIRGINIA OLANO This morning legislators from nine states announced a new multi-state coalition to push for carbon pricing legislation. While most states focussed on new legislation in their announcement, here in Massachusetts the focus was on business support for...