As electric bills soar, Healey has shifted on energy policy. Now what?

In the midst of a contentious reelection campaign, nowhere was the metamorphosis of Governor Maura Healey’s position on energy and climate change more evident than in the space of a single day in early October.

On that morning at an elementary school in East Boston, the governor gushed about the virtues of a clean energy project that, in her words, demonstrated “the work we can do together to protect our communities from climate change.”

Then, not an hour later, her office sent out a press release with the title, “Governor Healey Calls on Trump Administration to Expedite Review of Gas Pipeline Expansion.”

For some of her longtime fans in the environmental community, Healey’s apparent repositioning is, at times, baffling and disappointing.

“There has been a much more renewed focus on energy affordability, and … I have seen climate become a bit of a reduced priority,” Kyle Murray, the Massachusetts program director at the Acadia Center, said of the broader political atmosphere. “While they are still taking many steps forward, it is not as vocal as it once was.”

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