A public meeting held Monday for a planned electrical substation in the East Boston neighborhood shined a light on the juxtaposition of long lead times for transmission planning and new energy transition goals. Eversource Energy first identified a need for new transmission to accommodate increased demand in the East Boston...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker returned a comprehensive climate bill to the state legislature Sunday, with amendments that would lower the bill’s 2030 interim emissions reduction goal of 50% below 1990 levels to as low as 45%. "Over the past three weeks, our administration has engaged in productive and informative discussion...

The Biden administration is aiming to support the work states are already doing to eliminate harmful emissions by filling in funding gaps and strengthening climate policy, according to White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy. A major focus will be delivering on Biden’s promise to create jobs in the clean...

New England state officials last week heard suggestions for how ISO-NE’s electricity markets could be altered to aid in the implementation of clean energy laws and decarbonization mandates. The discussion Jan. 25 was part of the second of two public online technical forums to discuss reforms to the RTO’s wholesale market design...

Opponents of legislation to address climate change in Massachusetts are no longer denying the problem but are blocking measures through "discourses of delay," according to a new study by researchers at Brown University, which recommends the state "rein in" utilities’ lobbying. The study by the Institute at Brown for Environment...

Lawmakers in Massachusetts on Thursday passed a climate bill identical to one vetoed by Gov. Charlie Baker (R) in mid-January. The vetoed bill was passed by the House of Representatives and Senate at the tail end of the last legislative session. In his letter vetoing the bill, the governor said...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) vetoed a wide-ranging climate bill Thursday, saying he needed more time to scrutinize the details of the legislation and recommend changes. "While I support the bill's goals and am largely in agreement with many of its proposals, 35 hours was not enough time to review and suggest...

Last fall, governors from five of the six New England states — Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont — jointly released a pointed statement that said ISO-NE was frustrating regional and state-specific efforts to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions. It also called for reforms to the RTO’s market designs, transmission planning...

Massachusetts lawmakers passed a sweeping climate bill Monday that would provide the state another path to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The bill, which passed both the state House and Senate, still requires sign-off by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who recently released his own legally binding plan to achieve net-zero emissions...

Tensions between New England states and ISO-NE came to a head last year when five governors issued a joint statement calling for reforms to the RTO to enable their efforts to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions. (See New England Governors Call for RTO Reform.) A few days later, the New England States...