Acadia Center staff provided testimony at the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change “Future of Gas” oversight hearing on April 4, 2022, related to two separate topics.

  • Topic #1: Recommendations for re-thinking how our utility systems get planned and how we pay for our energy
  • Topic #2: Concerns related to assumptions in the consultant’s analysis that treat “renewable natural gas” (RNG) as a completely emissions-neutral fuel and overestimate the supply of RNG that will be available to Massachusetts in the future

A video recording of this testimony is available here. Acadia Center’s Director of  Policy, Amy Boyd can be seen providing testimony at the 10:30 mark and Acadia Center’s Ben Butterworth, Senior Manager, Climate and Energy Analysis, provides testimony beginning at the 1:51:50 mark.

Acadia Center Spoken Testimony RNG_MASenate_GWCC Future of Gas Oversight Hearing