§ 1 Definitions
§ 2 Regulations for reporting and verifying statewide greenhouse gas emissions; review; inventory
§ 3 Projected 2020 business as usual level; adoption of statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits; levels and limits for electric sector; establishment of declining annual aggregate limit
§ 3A Adoption of sector-based statewide greenhouse gas emissions sublimits
§ 3B Goal for succeeding plan’s necessary contribution to meeting each statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit and sublimit
§ 4 Adoption of 2020 statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit; relevant information; evaluation of potential cost and benefits; de minimis threshold; emission reduction; public hearings; statement; interim greenhouse gas emissions limits
§ 5 Contents of roadmap plan; filing
§ 6 Establishment of emissions reduction programs; promulgation of regulations; protection of low and moderate-income persons and environmental justice populations
§ 7 Market-place compliance mechanisms; regulations; out-state cooperation; enforcement
§ 8 Advisory committee
§ 9 Applicability of chapter
§ 10 Preparation for impact of climate change and mitigation damage from extreme weather events; statewide adaptation strategy; vulnerability assessments; climate change coordinators
§ 11 Municipal vulnerability preparedness grant program
§ 12 Alternative compliance payment as debt; lien; priority of lien; civil action; waiver or release; security requirements

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Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws > Chapter 21N - Climate Protection and Green Economy Act

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Other entity: includes a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.