Interview

Global warming champions

As part of our work to tackle global warming, Environment Massachusetts will be interviewing a series of elected officials, policy experts and others who are leading the way to solving this problem.

For this issue of our newsletter, we spoke with State Senator Marc R. Pacheco and State Senator Pamela P. Resor.

Sen. Pacheco of Taunton represents the First Plymouth and Bristol District and is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change. A champion of curbing pollution, Sen. Pacheco has been down to Nashville to work with Al Gore and his Climate Project, and filed Senate Bill 534, which would cap global warming pollution and cut emissions 20 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.

Sen. Resor, who hails from Acton and represents the Middlesex and Worcester District, is the Senate Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture, and has long led the fight to protect the environment in Massachusetts. She is the lead author of a bill that would cap global warming emissions produced by power plants across the state.

Sen. Pam Resor

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Sen. Marc Pacheco

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The battle over clean cars

In April, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has the authority to limit global warming pollution from cars, but EPA officials are trying to roll back clean car programs in the states.

Tailpipe standards already in place in 12 states would reduce global warming emissions by nearly 400 million metric tons by 2020—a reduction equivalent to taking 74 million of today’s cars off the road for an entire year