RI Climate Strategy summary comments_Acadia Center
- Meeting the Moment with Courage, Action, and Accountability
- Lack of Transparency in Development of 2025 Climate Strategy Not Conducive to Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement
- Lack of Transparency Regarding Assumptions Underpinning Both the “Current Policy Scenario” and “Potential Carbon Reduction Strategies” Raises Concerns and the Distinction Between the Two is Muddled
- The Biodiesel Heating Oil Act Presents an Extremely High Level of Risk to the State That is Not Addressed in the 2025 Climate Strategy
- Alternative Fuels Appears to be A Core Decarbonization Strategy for Delivered Fuels but Not The Gas Distribution System, Highlighting the Inconsistent Approach to Biofuels as a Building Decarbonization Strategy
- RES Compliance Tradeoffs: RECs vs. In-State Renewable Energy Deployment
- Concerns That Carbon Reduction Strategy Emissions Avoided Methodology Overstates Impact of New England Heat Pump Accelerator and Minimizes the Urgency of Enacting Complimentary Building Decarbonization Strategies
- Managing Uncertainty Around Advanced Clean Cars and Advanced Clean Trucks Implementation and the Need for State-Level Backup Pathways to Lock in Transportation Emissions Reductions
- Additional Risk from Federal Fuel Economy and GHG Standard
- Grid Constraints as a Structural Risk to the Vehicle Electrification Pathway