The Sierra Club is calling for a local Democratic representative to be dismissed from his role on a key committee, which the Democratic Massachusetts House Speaker panned as “foolish.” [some emphasis, links added]
State-level Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Mark Cusack, who chairs the state’s House Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy, was reportedly planning to soften the state’s climate mandates and cut some funding for a green program, according to the CommonWealth Beacon.
The local Sierra Club executive committee chapter then unanimously voted for Cusack to be removed as chair in a first-ever move for the chapter, outraged at the purported effort to “walk back the state’s landmark clean energy laws,” according to the local publication and Sierra Club.
“With this foolish request, the Massachusetts Sierra Club is demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the legislative process, and is simply overreacting to old news stories about an outdated committee redraft of the House’s energy affordability legislation,” Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano told the CommonWealth Beacon.
“Just last week, [Ways and Means] Chairman Michlewitz and Chairman Cusack hosted several member meetings regarding this bill and are now working to incorporate the feedback that they received.
“For months now, the House has been clear that this legislation will not alter the state’s climate goals or retreat from our commitment to clean energy.
“Instead, our sole focus is on bringing down energy costs for residents, a goal that everyone should be capable of supporting.”
Cusack did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
As an energy affordability bill moves through the Massachusetts legislature, the Sierra Club is opposing language hostile to the state’s climate goals, though the CommonWealth Beacon wrote that this language is not likely to remain in the final bill.
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How much does the cost electricity have to rise to change course of net zero? We see many examples in Europe what happens when you build windmills and solar, rather than fossil fuels. To me there are two choices, one higher electric rates or common sense solutions.