MIKE KENNEALY : JUST ANOTHER REPUBLICAN HACK IGNORING FACTS TO JUSTIFY CRITICISM!


WHILE MIKE KINNEALLY IS WHINING ABOUT ENERGY COSTS, what has he done to reduce his CONSUMPTION? 

You will note that TRUMP eliminated the ENERGY STAR ratings that allowed consumers to review ENERGY EFFICIENT APPLIANCES. 

We purchased several cartons of LED BULBS for $1 EACH to replace CFLs. TRUMP imposed tarrifs that have increased the price.

LEDS are now mandated in BUILDING CODES & much else to create energy efficient housing. 

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is part of the REPUBLICAN PLATFORM...does that mean MIKE KENNEALY has done nothing?


PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE OFFSHORE WIND HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS DISCUSSION, TRUMP HAS JEOPARDIZED OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY CRAFTED TO PROTECT RIGHT WHALES & MUCH ELSE. 

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AN ARTICLE COMPOSED BY REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE MIKE KENNEALY APPEARRED IN COMMONWEALTH BEACON THAT DEFINES HIS WILLINGNESS TO IGNORE FACTS....YOU CAN'T JUST CHERRY PICK WHAT SUITS YOU!

CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT HE DID FOR THE WHITE TOOTHED GOVERNOR..... 

IF REPUBLICANS DIDN'T LIE, NO ONE WOULD ELECT THEM! 

MASS GOP THRIVES ON DISINFORMATION 





MUST READ FOR MIKE KENNEALY'S WARP & DISINFORMATION! 

#1 GAS = METHANE! 

There's more than enough information available about the environmental consequences of FRACKING, the contamination of DRINKING WATER & massive use of WATER, as well as the ADVERSE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES of GAS in homes. 
excerpt: 

On September 13, 2018, a series of gas explosions and fires occurred in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts, primarily affecting the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover. The incident was caused by over-pressurized gas lines owned by Columbia Gas, resulting in one death, numerous injuries, and extensive property damage, leading to costs exceeding $1 billion.

#2  This is an issue that SHOULD be addressed with careful consideration & FACTS, clearly something MIKE KENNEALLY lacks! 

OPINION: Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Kennealy, who served as housing and economic development secretary under Gov. Charlie Baker, criticizes House Democrats for postponing debate on an energy bill that had drawn massive pushback from environmental groups over its language weakening 2030 climate targets. 






THE NEW REPUBLIC: 

How to Lower Energy Costs: Break Up the Electrical-Grid Cabal

Seven obscure regional transmission organizations control huge parts of the country’s electrical grid.

THE NEW REPUBLIC



The measure is ushering in an unexpected — and messy — debate over the state’s overall policy push to meet its 2030 climate commitments as Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability package filed earlier this year is thrown into disarray.


Cusack’s legislation would lower the amount of renewable energy the utilities would be required to purchase and cut the state’s energy efficiency initiative, which is funded through the utilities’ ratepayers, by $500 million.


CLIMATE: A major bill that would weaken the state’s 2030 climate mandates is officially on the move in the House after seven House Democrats on the energy committee voted to advance it. It’s a sign of the political muscle being exerted on Beacon Hill to soften the state’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and is throwing Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability legislation into disarray. Jordan Wolman has more. 

CHECKUP: Massachusetts’s long-running health care challenges are only set to grow more dire due to federal cuts and changes to Medicaid eligibility, Chris Lisinski reports.  

HOSPITAL: State officials voted to approve the sale of a Leicester hospital and nursing home to an out-of-state, for-profit regional health care operator. Sam Drysdale at the State House News Service has the details. 



MUST READ FOR LOTS OF FACTS & INFORMATION!

OPINION: Are the state’s ambitious 2030 climate commitments already out of reach? Rick Sullivan, a former state secretary of energy and environmental affairs and CEO of the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts, raises the question that’s reverberating around the State House right now.  












DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, THE ARTICLE BELOW WAS NOT POSTED, BUT THERE IS A LENGTHY HISTORY OF ATTEMPTS TO SLASH ENERGY 

FUNDING & MANDATES. 


WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE DIRTY ENERGY CONSUMPTION REQUIRES ALL OF US! 







CHINA IS PROMOTING CHEAP CLEAN SOLAR & SELLING PACKAGES THAT INCLUDE BATTERY BACKUP, IDEAL FOR POORER NATIONS THAT NEED DEPENDABLE ELECTRICITY- THEIR ECONOMY IS PROSPERING. THEY ARE REDUCING THEIR CONSUMPTION & CLEANING UP THEIR ENVIRONMENT WE NEED TO DO THE SAME!


















REP MARK CUSACK'S LEGISLATIVE HISTORY IS AVAILABLE HERE: 


REP. MARK J. CUSACK 
GENERAL COURT RECORD: 


The Download: Massachusetts EV charging plans continue to take hit
NOVEMBER 13, 2025








INCLUDES: 

CLIMATE: House members of a key legislative committee are forging ahead with a controversial bill that would defang the state’s 2030 emissions-reductions commitments. Jordan Wolman has the details.  


CLIMATE: A major bill that would weaken the state’s 2030 climate mandates is officially on the move in the House after seven House Democrats on the energy committee voted to advance it. It’s a sign of the political muscle being exerted on Beacon Hill to soften the state’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and is throwing Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability legislation into disarray. Jordan Wolman has more. 

MUST READ FOR LOTS OF FACTS & INFORMATION!

OPINION: Are the state’s ambitious 2030 climate commitments already out of reach? Rick Sullivan, a former state secretary of energy and environmental affairs and CEO of the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts, raises the question that’s reverberating around the State House right now.  



COMMONWEALTH BEACON POSTED HERE: 


The Download: Energy industry pads key lawmaker’s campaign coffers as major bill advances DON'T LET ENERGY INDUSTRY DICTATE POLICY!






NOVEMBER 14, 2025

COMMONWEALTH BEACON POSTED HERE:




House pivots on climate change and four more stories





NOVEMBER 15, 2025

POSTED HERE: 



House climate bill is a huge step backward MUST READ! 


        BELOW ARE 2 ARTICLES ADDRESSING THE PROPOSALS THAT WOULD 

        REDUCE/ELIMINATE CLEAN ENERGY LEGISLATION -- PLEASE READ TO 

        INFORM YOURSELVES & CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO                          OPPOSE THESE CHANGES DICTATED BY THE INDUSTRY! 

      

        I call your attention to these excerpts: 

Our lawmakers must be clear on what’s really driving high energy costs: it’s not clean energy. It’s fossil fuels, gas infrastructure, and aging transmission systems.  
In 2023 alone, Massachusetts consumers spent $20 billion on energy in their homes and businesses. Programs like Mass Save delivered over $34 billion in savings between 2012 and 2023 and generated more than $3 for every $1 invested. The program is the only tool we have that actively reduces energy burden for all of us, including low- and moderate-income households that are hardest hit by rising energy costs. 
Mass Save has weatherized 350,000 homes (including 70,000 low-income homes), created nearly 76,000 jobs, and saved the equivalent output of five power plants. Even if you’ve never used it directly, you’ve benefited from lower wholesale energy prices because your neighbors did. These are real savings in people’s wallets.  

Only a year earlier, when the region’s peak electricity demand reached 18,300 megawatts on January 17, 2024, emissions averaged about 85 metric tons per minute most of the day. Why? Because natural gas was available. In a single year, a 10 percent increase in electricity usage drove up emissions by 60 percent.  

With ratepayer-funded rebates encouraging installation of up to 500,000 heat pumps—which cost between $20,000 to $30,000 apiece—adding stress to our already overburdened electricity grid, the problem will only get worse and more expensive.  

As bad as this all sounds—and it is bad—Gov. Healey is smart to leave all options on the table.     


POSTED HERE: 

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