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	"author_name": "Progressive Mass ",
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	"title": "It&#x27;s Time to Make Polluters Pay ",
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	"description": "Massachusetts is already facing the impacts of climate change, and it will only get worse. The increased incidence of storms will damage coastlines and increase inland flooding: the state has projected that inland property damage due to climate change will increase by almost 50% by mid-century, with a disproportionate impact on low-income communities. Additional rail repair costs from extreme temperatures could reach $6 million per year by 2050 and a striking $35 million by the end of the century, and repair costs for electric transmission and utility distribution infrastructure alone are projected to increase by almost $100 million by 2050, with power outages disproportionately impacting low-income communities again. Not to mention the impact on human health and lives. Meanwhile, major fossil fuel companies are seeing record profits. The very companies who lied to the public for decades about climate change are benefiting while all of us, especially the most vulnerable, bear the cost. The Polluters Pay bill (H.1014 / S.588) would embrace the success of the superfund model by establishing a climate change adaptation cost recovery program. It would require companies that have contributed significantly to the buildup of climate-warming greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere to bear a share of the costs of needed infrastructure investment, based on their historic emissions. This bill would raise an estimated billions of dollars over 25 years from the largest polluters to provide funding for climate resiliency efforts such as the following: &amp;nbsp; restoring coastal wetlands and developing other nature- based solutions and coastal protections upgrading roads, bridges, subways, and transit systems preparing for and recovering from hurricanes and other extreme weather events installing energy efficient cooling systems and other weatherization and energy efficiency upgrades and retrofits upgrading the electrical grid and supporting the creation of self-sufficient clean energy microgrids addressing urban heat island effects through green spaces and urban forestry",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/its-time-to-make-polluters-pay"
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