{"id":3999,"date":"2014-10-24T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2014-10-27T17:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:42:24","slug":"gubenatorial-candidates-stances-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/gubenatorial-candidates-stances-on-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gubenatorial Candidates&#8217; Stances on the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE 10-27-2014:\u00a0 the Globe just published a nice color-coded chart with the 5 candidates&#8217; views on environmental and other issues. Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2014\/10\/25\/baker-coakley-weigh-mass-economy\/ZPonHJelVWopQgf84T9bFO\/igraphic.html?p1=Article_Graphic\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, when Green Needham went to compile the gubernatorial candidates\u2019 current environmental positions, we ran into some roadblocks. Namely, many of them posted little or nothing regarding their views. Thankfully, the October 8<sup>th<\/sup> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Boston Globe<\/span> published the responses to a 17 question survey they sent to all five candidates.\u00a0 The chart below summarizes their positions on some key issues, but reading the actual responses gives more a detailed and nuanced view of their opinions.\u00a0 Their responses can be found via these links to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Globe<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/politics\/2014\/10\/07\/charlie-baker-answers-questions-environmental-issues\/zPJrvK2yXAxVh9W7PE36cI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Baker<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/politics\/2014\/10\/07\/martha-coakley-answers-questions-environmental-issues\/lw3UB2cD8wmepigPjialSJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Coakley<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/politics\/2014\/10\/07\/evan-falchuk-answers-questions-environmental-issues\/h8qKNMgt6hWxeJtNN3yr8J\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Falchuk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/politics\/2014\/10\/07\/scott-lively-answers-questions-environmental-issues\/7xcH2fidFuEaSXrDaVbchM\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Lively<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/politics\/2014\/10\/07\/jeff-mccormick-answers-questions-environmental-issues\/FKEOcQw8OiH5UeLPR5hfdL\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff McCormick<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were hoping to also the environmental views of the two candidates for Attorney General, democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maurahealey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maura Healey<\/a> and Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/millerforag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Miller<\/a>, but we couldn&#8217;t uncover anything on Miller&#8217;s stances.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"199\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Baker<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Coakley<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Falchuk<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Lively<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>McCormick<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"199\">Is climate change a threat?<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"199\">Support for bottle bill<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"199\">Tax credits for Renewable Energy?<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Small<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">only<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"199\">Support of new natural gas pipelines in MA?<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes &amp; No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"199\">Endorsed by Environmental Groups?<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">Yes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"88\">\n<p align=\"center\">No<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 10-27-2014:\u00a0 the Globe just published a nice color-coded chart with the 5 candidates&#8217; views on environmental and other issues. Check it out here. A few weeks ago, when Green Needham went to compile the gubernatorial candidates\u2019 current environmental positions,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,22,126,19,41,136,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-business","category-climate-change","category-energy-efficiency","category-legislation","category-policy","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}