Report  2025 Massachusetts Climate Report Card

The landscape for climate work changed significantly over the past year. The loss of a federal partner and global economic forces including high inflation, tariffs, and continued supply chain issues have slowed progress in providing clean, affordable energy for all and in equipping our communities to respond to climate hazards. The federal administration’s targeted dismantling of state authority to regulate emissions,¹ revocation of $3.7 billion to Massachusetts that’s required all secretariats to address funding gaps, and efforts to stop progress on renewable energy and environmental justice have forced the Commonwealth to find new pathways forward. Despite these delays in progress, the state is activating available tools to advance a clean, resilient future for residents.

Massachusetts has made significant progress on what it can control. The Commonwealth met several milestones: installing heat pumps in over 100,000 homes a year ahead of the targeted schedule, making considerable progress on major clean energy projects, and conserving 28% of state lands. Yet the pace of electric vehicle deployment has slowed amid cuts to federal incentives, and the attempted rescission of offshore wind permits and elimination of federal tax credits have delayed wind and solar deployment. The Healey-Driscoll Administration has risen to this challenge by proposing the Energy Affordability, Independence & Innovation Act to get costs off utility bills, stabilize prices, and bring more energy into the state, all while pursuing innovative regional solutions to enhance energy supply and ensuring the state’s largest energy efficiency program provides more equitable support for customers who need it most. The Administration is working with stakeholders to make clean technologies easier and cheaper to adopt and make electric rates more reflective of personal use.

Massachusetts faces increasing flooding, heat, drought, wildfire and other climate impacts. Withdrawal of federal funding for resilience has made it more challenging to mitigate these impacts and develop community capacity for adaptation. The state remains steadfast in implementing Governor Healey’s ResilientMass Plan to ensure sound science guides state actions and supports communities in preparing for changing conditions. Massachusetts is developing the first Climate Science Report to guide science-based decision making, streamlining resilience grant applications through the new Environment and Climate One Stop, and providing greater certainty for local action with the new Climate Resilience Playbook. Governor Healey filed the Mass Ready Act to authorize increased funding and policies that will strengthen infrastructure, invest in local climate actions, protect communities, avoid costly damages, and help respond to the federal withdrawal of resilience funding. 

Massachusetts remains committed to environmental justice and equity despite federal efforts to halt spending on diversity, equity and inclusion. This year, the Commonwealth embedded processes that seek to counteract that damage and ingrain these principles into energy siting and agency workflows and offer grant resources to burdened communities.

Across the board, Massachusetts remains committed to saving energy, cutting costs, reducing emissions, protecting people and property from flooding and other hazards, and supporting burdened communities.

For guidance on interpreting the metrics² referenced throughout, please refer to the Appendix: Report Card Structure. Metrics will be updated more frequently on the Clean Energy and Climate Metrics Dashboard. 

1. Under the Clean Air Act, a waiver allows California to set emissions standards in excess of federal regulation and for other states to sign onto those standards. This is the basis for the Advance Clean Cars, Advanced Clean Cars II, and Advanced Clean Trucks regulations
2. The Climate Report Card use the most up-to-date metrics available. Many require some time for data collection and processing and are only available for 2024 or other time periods. Data from previous report cards are reported within each table.