Massachusetts Bill Encourages Cleaner Home Heating Energy

 The cold weather has state lawmakers thinking about how to make home heating improvements. 

A legislative committee voted this week to send a bill to the Senate that encourages thermal energy production.

How did the 'Green Energy' law did in terms of jobs?

In 2008, when then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed the state's mandated alternative energy law, she said a $6 billion investment would generate 17,000 jobs. 

The majority of those jobs never materialized.

Gov. Granholm called the alternative energy mandate "perhaps the most important legislation to create jobs and diversify Michigan's economy that has crossed my desk. … This comprehensive energy plan will create all kinds of jobs for all kinds of people."