Marc Breslow
Tell Governor Baker We Want a Strong Climate Plan for 2030
Governor Baker’s administration is currently in the process of finalizing their Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2030 (CECP), and is asking for public input on the plan by March 22. The 2030 CECP outlines the actions Massachusetts will undertake this...
Massachusetts Sets Target of 85% Cut in Emissions by 2050
Earlier this year, Governor Baker announced a new state mandate of “net zero emissions by 2050” during his annual State of the Commonwealth address. Since then his administration, led by Energy & Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Katie Theoharides, has been...
Cap-and-Trade in California: Health and Climate Benefits Greatly Outweigh Costs
We compare the costs of greenhouse gas reduction programs to the value of reducing the worldwide dangers of climate change and of improving health outcomes to determine whether the programs are a cost-effective means for spending large amounts of state...
Climate XChange releases guide to carbon pricing policy
Climate XChange recently released Recommendations for State-Level Carbon Pollution Pricing, a comprehensive guide to designing legislation or executive branch action to implement either carbon pollution fees or cap-and-trade policies. The guide is accompanied by a Sample Carbon Fee/Tax Legislation and...
Climate XChange Submits Comments to Improve TCI Forecasts
Over the next few months, the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) will be forecasting the impacts of setting up a cap-and-trade system for transportation in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. This forecast will be critical to the GHG reduction targets...
How to Have Your Carbon Fee Cake and Eat It Too
Our analysis of Massachusetts Representative Jennifer Benson’s H.2810, An Act to Promote Green Infrastructure and Reduce Carbon Emissions, shows that while it imposes substantial fees on carbon pollution, creating incentives to reduce emissions, it will still financially protect low and...
A Conversation on Equity, Climate Change & Justice with Roxana Rivera
The daughter of Salvadoran immigrants to the United States, Roxana Rivera has been working to fight for immigrant and workers' rights for 25 years. After working at SEIU Local 615 for nearly a decade, Rivera was appointed to head the...
I predicted the Green New Deal’s 4 Million Jobs 20 years ago
The Green New Deal could create 4 million jobs. Or at least that’s what I and others wrote in 1998 in The National Green Jobs Report. The idea of creating lots of green jobs is not a new one; it goes...
Recommendations for New Mexico Carbon Pollution Pricing Policy
This study responds to the New Mexico State Senate’s 2018 SM023, calling for a study to be done on “how a carbon fee could be implemented in New Mexico and its effects on the economy, jobs, health and greenhouse gas...