{"id":5258,"date":"2015-10-21T19:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2015-10-20T21:34:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T01:34:26","slug":"please-support-sen-barretts-carbon-pricing-bill-on-oct-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/please-support-sen-barretts-carbon-pricing-bill-on-oct-27th\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Support Sen. Barrett\u2019s Carbon Pricing Bill on Oct 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0hearing by the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities &amp; Energy has been set for <strong>Sen. Mike Barrett\u2019s (D-Lexington) carbon pricing bill<\/strong>, <strong>S.\u00a01747,\u00a0<\/strong><em>An Act combating climate change<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2113715337\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Date<\/span>:\u00a0 Tuesday, October 27th\u00a0at 1:00 pm<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Location<\/span>: State House, Hearing Room B-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>WE NEED A VERY IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Sen. Barrett\u2019s bill has been gaining huge momentum.\u00a0 We\u2019re up to\u00a0<strong>44 co-sponsors<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; more than 20% of the State Legislature.\u00a0 A big thank you to the most recent co-sponsors: Sen. Marc Pacheco, Rep. Paul Schmid and Rep. Ken Gordon.\u00a0 Outside the State House, Sen. Barrett has been speaking to Democratic Town Committees across the state, with\u00a0<strong>more than 20 endorsing carbon pricing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Barrett has even been invited to speak to his first Republican Town Committee.\u00a0 This issue needs\u00a0bi-partisan support,\u00a0and we have a solution that both\u00a0progressives and conservatives agree on.\u00a0 We are working with business people, religious leaders and concerned citizens who are worried about the impact that\u00a0climate change will have on their children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s <strong><em>crucial<\/em> <\/strong>that you attend\u00a0the hearing <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2113715338\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on<strong><em> Tuesday<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><em>\u00a0Oct. 27th\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2026 and bring as many other supporters as you can.<\/p>\n<p>You may also submit written testimony to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Committees\/Joint\/J37\" target=\"_blank\">Chairs of the Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is more information about the bill on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/documents\/2015\/10\/102715-s-1747-hearing-flyer-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">document<\/a>, and a list of supporting organizations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0hearing by the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities &amp; Energy has been set for Sen. Mike Barrett\u2019s (D-Lexington) carbon pricing bill, S.\u00a01747,\u00a0An Act combating climate change: Date:\u00a0 Tuesday, October 27th\u00a0at 1:00 pm Location: State House, Hearing Room B-1 WE NEED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[52,126,41],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-5258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-climate-change","category-legislation","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}