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  ADVERTISEMENT The Saturday Send Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. This week, a Massachusetts initiative designed to save ratepayers money and boost energy efficiency could soon add new verification requirements to certain benefits. The House and Senate have both advanced legislation that would reform Mass Save, a program facing blowback for its perceived bloat. The proposed change would apply only to consumers in some of the poorest parts of the state. Jordan Wolman breaks down the potential impacts of the changes. Plus, a ruling in the state's highest court highlights rising tensions over local control between renewable energy developers and the small Massachusetts communities where they're trying to build; lawmakers are working to build a unified response to Big Tech that tackles data privacy, cell phone bans in schools, and social media regulations; the Senate wants to allow duplexes on all ...