Following three years of analysis and planning, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) published the Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030. Under existing climate change legislation, EOEEA Secretary Bethany Card is charged with determining the near-term economy-wide emissions reductions that the Commonwealth will seek to achieve on its road to long-term carbon neutrality.
Card set goals of a 33% reduction from the 1990 emissions level in 2025 and a 50% reduction in 2030. The climate plan, which explores how to achieve those reductions, “includes a portfolio of strategies and policies designed to achieve sector-specific [greenhouse gas] emissions sublimits, including for transportation, buildings, electricity generation, industrial emissions, and non-energy emission sources such as leaks of natural gas and refrigerants.”
