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