From:                                         Karina Wilkinson <kwilkinson@fwwlocal.org>

Sent:                                           Thursday, July 25, 2019 12:02 PM

To:                                               RPS, DOER (ENE)

Subject:                                     RPS Class I (225 CMR 14.00) and RPS Class II (225 CMR 15.00) Regulations Changes

 

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TO:      John Wassam

            Department of Energy Resources

            100 Cambridge Street, Suite 1020

            Boston, MA  02114

 

RE:       RPS Class I (225 CMR 14.00) and RPS Class II (225 CMR 15.00) Regulations Changes

 

I strongly oppose the proposed changes to RPS Class I and II regulations. Regulatory changes should be science-based. Increasing the burning of biomass is not a transition to clean renewable energy and undermines efforts to enact real clean energy policies. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says that we need to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in 30 years. These changes will not get us there. In addition, the emissions can increase rates of lung cancer, asthma, and heart disease, and the likely siting of facilities in environmental justice communities will only increase the burden on those communities. Your agency and the Baker Administration needs to instead invest in a plan to stop the expansion of dirty energy sources that pollute our air and warm our planet, not promote it.

 

Karina Wilkinson

Local MA Coordinator

Food & Water Watch

Somerville, MA