Support for Citizens' Petition on Environment

Following its caucus on Sunday, March 8, the LDTC held a special meeting to discuss a citizens' petition on the environment to be presented at Town Meeting on March 28. After a brief discussion, the committee members present voted unanimously to support the resolution. This resolution requests Lincoln residents to affirm specific environmental directives at the national, state and local levels. The text of the resolution follows:  

Resolution on the Environment to be presented at Town Meeting, March 28

March 28, 2020

1. The continuing participation of the United States in the Paris Climate Accord; and

2. The enactment by the state legislature and implementation by the executive branch of these statewide climate-related policies:

a) Promote environmental justice, by including those most impacted by climate change and fossil fuel pollution as participants in crafting new, equitable policies;
b) Accelerate the growth of clean energy, to achieve 100% renewable electricity by 2035 and 100% renewable energy for heating and transportation by 2045; and
c) Use mechanisms such as equitable carbon pricing or the transportation climate initiative to speed the transition away from fossil fuels and to invest in our future.

3. Conveying such vote to our elected officials at the federal and state level; and
4. Directing Town departments, boards, and committees to collaborate on and otherwise take expeditious action to adopt and implement appropriate measures to reduce the carbon footprint in Lincoln to the extent reasonably possible, following Town Meeting approval if necessary or desirable.