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Speaker 1: The yes votes outweigh the nose for the House Committee

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Speaker 1: on Ways and Means, Something three fifty mass says, reminds

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Speaker 1: us how powerful the fossil fuel industry is, even in

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Speaker 1: blue states like Massachusetts. Sabinav Amering volunteers with three fifty

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Speaker 1: MASS and says this redrafted energy bill has improvements, but

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Speaker 1: slashes the mass Save budget for twenty twenty seven, gutting

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Speaker 1: efforts to save residence money with clean heat.

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Speaker 2: I just think it's important that we make energy affordable.

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Speaker 2: As someone who has done these changes to my home,

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Speaker 2: I am not paying a lot at all for energy

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Speaker 2: and heat, and I want everyone to have the same

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Speaker 2: opportunities that I am.

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Speaker 1: Alan Palm, the executive director of the Better Future Project,

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Speaker 1: says the Mass Save program saves people money through insulating

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Speaker 1: and electrifying their homes through state incentives.

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Speaker 3: So instead of cutting the utilities profits or cutting their

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Speaker 3: lobbying budget that rate payers also pay for, they want

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Speaker 3: to cut the program that incentivizes rate payers to insulate

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Speaker 3: an electrify their homes and stop buying oil and gas

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Speaker 3: over the long term. And we're opposed to that.

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Speaker 1: At the Statehouse. Ima Friedman WBZ Boston's News radio