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On April 11, 2007, Governor Deval Patrick’s Cabinet reorganization took effect. The renamed Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs now includes the Commonwealth’s two energy-related agencies: the Department of Public Utilities and the Division of Energy Resources. Please follow the links above for more information about these agencies.
On Jan. 23, Secretary Bowles
testified in Washington, D.C., before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which is chaired by U.S.
Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts. The topic was auctioning of emissions allowances under cap-and-trade programs to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and Secretary Bowles testified on Governor Patrick’s decision to auction Massachusetts’s allowances
under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and use the proceeds to promote energy efficiency and reduce electricity costs.
Secretary Bowles’s Press Release
Secretary Bowles’s Oral Testimony
Secretary Bowles’s Written Testimony (appendix)
The Massachusetts Advanced Biofuels Task Force was established to study and make recommendations for legislation, regulations and other programs to promote the development of an advanced biofuels industry in the Commonwealth.
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