Chapter 21N: CLIMATE PROTECTION AND GREEN ECONOMY ACT
- Section 1 Definitions
- Section 2 Regulations for reporting and verifying statewide greenhouse gas emissions; review; inventory
- Section 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
- Section 3A Adoption of sector-based statewide greenhouse gas emissions sublimits
- Section 3B Goal for succeeding plan's necessary contribution to meeting each statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit and sublimit
- Section 4 Adoption of 2020 statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit; compliance measures; information gathering; costs-benefit analysis; de minimus threshold for emissions reduction requirements; voluntary actions for reductions; public hearings; updates to plan
- Section 5 Report of implementation of regulations relative to climate change
- Section 6 Promulgation of regulations that reduce energy use, increase efficiency and encourage renewable sources of energy
- Section 7 Market-place compliance mechanisms; regulations; out-state cooperation; enforcement
- Section 8 Advisory committee
- Section 9 Applicability of chapter
- Section 10 Preparation for impact of climate change and mitigation damage from extreme weather events; statewide adaptation strategy; vulnerability assessments; climate change coordinators
- Section 11 Municipal vulnerability preparedness grant program
- Section 12 Alternative compliance payment as debt; lien; priority of lien; civil action; waiver or release; security requirements