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Advocates urge end to Class II subsidies for waste-to-energy plants, warn ratepayers may be subsidizing out-of-state trash
Summary
Green Energy Consumers Alliance told the committee that many high-emitting waste-to-energy plants benefited from the Alternative Portfolio Standard; witnesses urged ending subsidies to avoid ratepayer support for incinerators that burn imported trash.
A witness for Green Energy Consumers Alliance told the Joint Committee that Massachusetts’ Alternative Portfolio Standard (APS) has been funding high-emitting waste-to-energy plants and that limiting or eliminating those subsidies would be fairer to ratepayers.
Kerry Katayan testified in favor of H.3553, describing a 2023 snapshot in which 11 of 12 large, non-combined-heat-and-power plants in New England that produced the most…
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