This report card supports our push for state decision-makers to urgently implement the climate law, now. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
We all know what it’s like to bring a report card home from school. There’s the unbridled joy of receiving a good grade and the gut-wrenching feeling of getting a bad one. What we haven’t necessarily experienced is our entire state receiving a report card. But we just got one in Massachusetts, and it’s a mixed bag.
Published by the state’s Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience, the “Massachusetts Climate Report Card” measures the state’s progress in lowering carbon pollution to net zero by 2050.
It shows we’re making progress in some areas, like in the number of electric vehicles on the road. But it also reveals we’re far from reaching the 2030 goals that keep us on track to our ultimate 2050 targets. We’re talking…