Highlights
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental
Affairs (EEA) has issued its draft Massachusetts Environmental
Policy Act (MEPA) Interim Protocol on Climate Adaptation and
Resiliency (the Interim Protocol), as well as a draft Interim
Protocol for Environmental Justice Outreach (the EJ Interim
Protocol).
The Interim Protocol is designed to encourage development
projects to utilize the best available climate projections for
Massachusetts to consider risks and impacts associated with sea
level rise, increased intensity of precipitation and increases in
average temperature.
This Holland & Knight alert is the second in a series
covering Massachusetts initiatives targeting the Commonwealth's
anticipated need for climate change adaptation, focusing on the