Posted on 08/07/2023 4:05:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As climate change unfolds, some will be impacted more severely than others. Whether through less protection from extreme temperature swings or an inability to afford rising energy bills, our most vulnerable communities deserve equitable solutions that will slash emissions and improve health and affordability across the Commonwealth. However, the unintended consequences of Massachusetts’ approach to end the use of fossil fuels in homes has left communities jumping through hoops to electrify new construction.
States and cities nationwide are recognizing the equitable benefits of pollution-free homes. Yet communities in Massachusetts have been hamstrung by arbitrary caps and regulatory hurdles, limiting the promise of pollution-free buildings to the privileged few.
Pollution-free buildings should not be reserved for wealthy communities. Beyond the climate benefits, all-electric, efficient homes are cheaper to build, have lower monthly utility bills, and do not emit dangerous pollutants hazardous to health. Burning fossil fuels in buildings is a major source of outdoor air pollution. But gas appliances also emit dangerous levels of pollutants inside our homes, which exacerbate respiratory and other illnesses.
Environmental justice communities are also disproportionately at risk of experiencing the worst impacts of climate change, including extreme heat. While Massachusetts is projected to see more frequent extreme heat events, only 32 percent of homes have central air conditioning. By encouraging the adoption of highly efficient electric heat pumps in new homes, which provide both heating and cooling, the state can close disparities to life-saving cooling during climate-driven heat waves.
Until every community has the opportunity to build all-electric new construction, the state will lock in the health, economic, and climate disparities for decades to come. Healey and the Legislature must deliver equitable climate action by allowing every municipality to end the use of fossil fuels in new buildings, spreading the benefits of electrification across every community.
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Utter insanity
utter tyranny
not crazy
not stupid
The tyranny of the DNC knows no bounds and destruction of all opposition to them and to their ‘plans’ goes forward without a whimper from the ‘media’ and a lot of other people who OUGHT to know better!
The entire article is written by kooks, but in case you want to know what in the world "Environmental justice communities" means;
https://www.foresightdesign.org/blog/2017/7/19/xcd8aq95i73fy933hw4ppjappv346t#:~:text=Communities%20most%20impacted%20by%20environmental%20harms%20and%20risks,or%2C%20as%20the%20USEPA%20defines%20them%2C%20%E2%80%9Coverburdened%20communities.%E2%80%9D
The Left never get called on, much less harrassed, on their misinformation (disinformation). This article is full of Leftist disinformation.
The Bay State has one of the country's highest average residential electricity prices, with rates hovering around 32.29 cents per kilowatt-hour as of March 2023, according to the Energy Information Administration, That's up from 25.40 cents per kWh a year earlier. (https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/electricity-rates-massachusetts/)And refusal to support build nuclear generation. The Globe makes the NYT look conservative.
Yup.
Deep State’s frontmen are stupid.
Deep State is not.
But Deep State is evil.
Unadulterated evil.
And where will this power come from? And there is the rub, there won’t be and that is what they want. Complete control in the guises of caring about the planet.
Besides the utter environmental and financial disaster “green” energy is, there will be an upside when the wailing and nashing of teeth as ev owners scream when their chargers are turned off. U big brother
To quote south park “thanks”
He is getting a lot of work these days.
have lower monthly utility bills
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I call B.S. on that one.
Heat pump systems are not efficient for areas that experience extreme cold like the northern sections of the country. They are not very efficient even in moderate areas. I lived in a home with a heat pump in southern Oklahoma. Hardly a place with cold winters. Yet I paid more for heating and cooling in that small home than I did in a much larger home with a conventional central heat and air unit with a gas fired furnace. In fact…during the extreme winter here in Oklahoma in 20 or 21, folks with heat pumps were miserable. The auxiliary heat systems in their heat pumps couldn’t keep up. These climate nuts really do want to return us to the Stone Age.
These people live in Delusionville, where insanity reigns. Scary that they are given a platform to spread that insanity.
My disjointed thoughts after having my brain scrambled:
Word salad, interspersed with lies, Marxism, and weak-minded drivel.
Where does one learn to write this way and have a belief system that accepts this as fact and truth?
Some find my use of vile and vulgar language offensive, but at least I am comprehensible.
Better dead than red.
I’m not going to be dead when this is over. It will be the commies. There is no undoing their programming. That’s my word salad.
Wow. I just changed contracts for my electricity provider. It was something like $0.089/Kilowatt hr, and I was pissed because it was up a penny. (Yeah, I do percentages in my head.)
Insane.
Dangerously short-sighted for the population.
Stop and realize who benefits from this scheme.
This in a region that is on the ragged edge of rolling blackouts in the wintertime.
How do they feel about tornadoes? A redneck in a trailer park deserves “Environmental Justice” too.
I'll bet both idiots who wrote this piece feel it's just fine to smoke marijuana -- about a thousand times more dangerous for your lungs than owning and using a gas stove.
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