S9, the “Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy,” sets a statewide target of “net-zero” emissions by 2050, establishes the Massachusetts Climate Policy Commission, and directs a “clean energy equity workforce” for “environmental justice populations.”
The Senate passed S9 on March 18, 2021, by a vote of 39 to 1. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because this bill—modeled after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III report—is a back-end, globalist-led effort to codify international treaty language on “environmental justice” into state law. Nevertheless, there is no constitutional authority for federal, state, or local government to pursue such policy, particularly in the name of “climate change.” Unjust encroachments on Americans’ private property or undue interference with their free-market enterprise is protected against by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.