Make All Cars in Massachusetts Electric,Utopic State Report Says

Make All Cars in Massachusetts Electric,Utopic State Report Says

By Katie Lannan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

A regional market-based program to reduce carbon emissions from transportation and a goal that all new cars, light trucks, and buses sold in Massachusetts be electric by 2040 are among the recommendations in a two-volume, 237-page state report rolled out Friday afternoon.

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Vermont Democrats Want Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment –And So Does Republican Governor

Matthew McDonald

Planned Parenthood spent $450,000 trying to defeat Rick Scott in his first run for governor of Vermont in 2016. But Scott, a Republican who was just elected last month to a second two-year term as governor, recently gave all the answers the abortion provider wanted on a 20-question survey, according to Seven Days.

A spokesman says Scott also supports a push by Democrats in the state legislature to add an amendment to the Vermont Constitution that would specifically protect legal abortion.

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