State Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, has been appointed co-chairman of an energy and environment committee of Manhattan-based Council of State Governments/Eastern Regional Conference.
Pacheco will serve as co-chairman through 2014.
CSG/ERC is a non-profit that describes itself as a nonpartisan organization whose goal is to promote state policy innovation and to advocate for regional interests at the federal level.
The group was started in 1937 and serves legislative, executive and judicial branch officials in 11 Northeastern states, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Eastern Canadian provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Quebec.