Gas utilities’ climate plans are ‘critically flawed,’ state officials and advocates say

Massachusetts officials and environmental advocates didn’t mince words this week when they responded to climate plans put forward by the state’s five gas utilities.

The Department of Energy Resources called the plans “inactionable and unenforceable” in a brief filed with the state Department of Public Utilities, and said they won’t help the state reduce its reliance on natural gas.

While the gas companies said they tried to strike a balance between their interests and the state’s goals, Kyle Murray, author of the nonprofit Acadia Center’s brief, said the plans fell short.

“These plans are supposed to serve as the roadmap for how we are going to meet our emission reduction targets and wind down the gas system in an orderly manner,” he said. “The department laid out a set of requirements of what it expected from the gas companies in their plans and as I and others argue in our briefs, they simply did not meet what the department asked them to do.”

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