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| BOSTON –With the action today of the Massachusetts State Senate, our state comes closer to having cleaner, more fuel efficient cars on our roads. | |
| Boston, MA- Senate bill 502, a bill to Protect Public Health by Reducing Harmful Diesel Emissions, sponsored by Senator Hart (D-Boston) and Representative Coakley-Rivera (D-Springfield), passed out of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture today. If signed into law, the bill would make Massachusetts a national leader in reducing harmful pollution from diesel engines. | |
| BOSTON—The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection today announced new rules for the state's oldest and dirtiest power plants that will require them to eventually reduce their emissions of toxic mercury by 95 percent. | |
| Tailpipe standards already in place in Massachusetts and 11 other states would reduce global warming emissions by nearly 400 million metric tons by 2020 – a reduction level equivalent to taking 74 million of today’s cars off the road for an entire year, according to a new report released today by the Environment Massachusetts. | |
| BOSTON—Weeks after Governors Pataki and Schwarzenegger penned a letter to Senate leaders urging them not to weaken the Clean Air Act, Gov. Mitt Romney decided not to sign a similar letter sent yesterday by northeast governors Jodi Rell of Connecticut and John Baldacci of Maine. | |
| Environmental organizations today released the findings of a major national study which estimates that more than 20,000 Americans die prematurely each year from breathing deadly diesel fumes. | |
| Environmental and public health groups asked the state of Massachusetts to promote cleaner cars today through a "Clean Cars Standard" at a hearing at the Department of Environmental Protection today. | |
| BOSTON – With gas prices on peoples’ minds this Thanksgiving holiday, a new report released today by Environment Massachusetts finds hope for savings on gas in a pending federal energy bill. The report, America Idles, claims that the energy bill passed by the federal Senate (H.R. 6), which would boost Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE), would mean big savings for Bay Staters at the pump as well as significant reductions in global warming emissions. | |
| With gas prices on peoples’ minds this Thanksgiving holiday, a new report released today by Environment Massachusetts finds hope for savings on gas in a pending federal energy bill. The report, America Idles, claims that the energy bill passed by the federal Senate (H.R. 6), which would boost Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE), would mean big savings for Bay Staters at the pump as well as significant reductions in global warming emissions. | |
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