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Christian MilNeil

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The Climate Emergency

Climate Report Card Gives MassDOT A Failing Grade As Mass. Misses Key Climate Goals

A bar chart showing three pairs of bars (with a red bar for "expenses" next to a stacked pair of bars of an equal combined hight, with a green bar for "revenues" and a black bar on top of the green for "budget gap". The x axis shows three budget years: FY2026, FY2027, and FY2028. The y axis runs from 0 to 4K and is labelled "Millions of dollars". The bars get progressively taller over the three years, but the red and black bars (expenses and deficits) grow more than the green bars (revenue). The left set of bars shows $3,103 million in expenses, $2,864 in revenues, and $239 in deficit. The right set of bars (FY2028) shows $3,640 in expenses, $2,802 in revenue, and $837 in deficit.

Elections and Politics

Another Year, Another Budget Gap: Gov. Healey Still Needs A Long-Term Solution for Funding the T

Bar chart illustrating climate-heating emissions on the y-axis, measured in million metric tons of CO2, on a scale from 0 to 30, with years on the x-axis, from 2018 to 2025. The final stacked bar on the right, for 2025, represents the state's climate plan target and is notably shorter than the others. The bars are stacked with black bars indicating emissions from gasoline and smaller red bars indicating emissions from aviation. The stacked bars start near 30 MMTCO2 in 2018 and 2019, decline to 22.6 in 2020, then slowly climb again to 27 MMT in 2024. The 2025 target is 24.9.

Massachusetts Gasoline Consumption Continued to Increase in 2024

A crowd of people in yellow flourescent safety vests stands behind a podium where the Massachusetts Governor is speaking. To her left is a poster that outlines the new wages and benefits for newly-hired bus drivers under the terms of a new labor deal, with a $30 per hour wage in bold lettering at the top.

Gov. Healey Pledges to Double Operating Support for the T, Seek Replacement for Gasoline Taxes

Nick Sementelli

Vision Zero

Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco

Gas tax

Climate Report Card Gives MassDOT A Failing Grade As Mass. Misses Key Climate Goals

Another Year, Another Budget Gap: Gov. Healey Still Needs A Long-Term Solution for Funding the T

Massachusetts Gasoline Consumption Continued to Increase in 2024

Gov. Healey Pledges to Double Operating Support for the T, Seek Replacement for Gasoline Taxes

Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco

Ten Ways the U.S. Can Cut Gasoline Expenditures Right Now

Business Groups, Advocates Agree: Drivers Need To Pay More

Report: Higher Gas Tax, Like Higher Transit Fares, Could Increase Inequality