Massachusetts legislature passes climate policy bill
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Dean of the Massachusetts Senate and Founding Chair of Senate’s Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change Marc R. Pacheco, D-Taunton, announced that the Massachusetts legislature passed an act creating a next-generation roadmap for Massachusetts climate policy (S. 9) Jan. 28.
Pacheco cosponsored the bill. The legislation, a refile of an identical version which passed the House and Senate last session but was pocket vetoed by Gov. Baker, sets a net-zero target for carbon emissions by 2050 and interim emissions limits for 2030 and 2040, a baseline provision that Pacheco authored in the original version of the legislation. It also provides the executive branch with a number of tools to achieve the net-zero by 2050 limit.
In defiance of Governor Baker, the Legislature returns climate bill he vetoed
By David Abel Globe Staff,Updated January 28, 2021, 6:10 p.m.
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A protester at the Youth Climate Strike in the Massachusetts State House in 2019.Craig F. Walker/Globe staff/File 2019
In an act of legislative defiance, state lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill identical to one vetoed this month by Governor Charlie Baker that would make Massachusetts one of the nationâs leading states in addressing climate change.
The bill would require the state to reduce its carbon emissions by 50 percent below 1990 levels by the end of the decade and effectively eliminate those emissions by 2050.
Legislators call for more vaccination sites in Southeast Massachusetts
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BOSTON – Chair of the Southeastern Massachusetts Legislative Caucus Sen. Marc R. Pacheco, D-Taunton, has announced that 26 legislators have called for more vaccination sites in Southeastern Massachusetts.
The following legislators have signed onto a letter calling for the sites: Senators Michael D. Brady, Mark C. Montigny, Susan L. Moran, Rebecca L. Rausch, and Walter F. Timilty, and Representatives Antonio F. D. Cabral, Claire D. Cronin, Josh S. Cutler, David F. DeCoste, Angelo L. D Emilia, Carol A. Doherty, Carole A. Fiola, Susan Williams Gifford, Patricia A. Haddad, Christopher Hendricks, Steven S. Howitt, Kathleen R. LaNatra, Norman J. Orrall, Adam J. Scanlon, Paul A. Schmid, III, Alan Silvia, William M. Straus, Alyson M. Sullivan, Timothy R. Whelan, and Steven G. Xiarhos.
Wareham, Marion businesses receive COVID grants
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BOSTON – Five Wareham businesses and two Marion businesses are receiving COVID-19 Small Business Grants.
Sen. Marc R. Pacheco, D-Taunton, announced that 22 businesses in all in the 1st Plymouth & Bristol district have been selected to receive a total of $1,210,000 through the COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program.
In Wareham, they are Beaver Dam Partners Inc., $75,000; Kaleidoscope of Dance and Gymnastics Inc., $70,000; E.L. Morse Lumber Inc., $75,000; Equestrian Element, $25,000; Jasmine Keane, $10,000.
In Marion, they are Brew Fish Bar & Eatery, $75,000; The Atlantic Bistro, $75,000.
These awards to businesses in Bridgewater, Carver, Marion, Middleborough, Raynham, Taunton, and Wareham, come in addition to a total of $1.8 million given to 31 local businesses in the 1st Plymouth & Bristol District over the past several weeks of COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program awards administered by the Massachusetts Growth Ca