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"House Docket 5554, “An Act addressing energy costs, transparency, and sustainability,” was filed Jan. 15 by House Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones, Jr. (R-North Reading), Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester), Rep. Wong, and 23 of their Republican colleagues. It contains a series of reforms to address rising energy costs, including proposals to restructure the Mass Save program, allow older homeowners and renters to factor in a portion of their utility bills to determine their eligibility for the Senior Circuit Breaker tax credit, and provide more cost transparency for consumers."

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"Sen. Tarr said, “Unaffordable energy costs in Massachusetts are destabilizing household budgets, compromising our competitiveness, and undermining trust in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The comprehensive provisions of this bill come to the rescue of ratepayers who are struggling to pay some of the highest prices for electricity and home heating in the nation, with boundaries to control costs, tools to achieve consumer savings, and powerful and innovative measures to create new sources of energy without carbon emissions. Taken together, these measures will produce the rate relief that is desperately needed now, while putting our state on a path to more affordable and environmentally sound sources of energy for the future.”

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