Massachusetts has long been at the forefront of the clean energy revolution, joining California and a handful of other states years ago in adopting some of the toughest environmental regulations in the nation.
Those laws, spanning several gubernatorial administrations, were approved in response to mounting scientific evidence that excess greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to climate change.
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