To no one's surprise, Bill Koch's "Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound" front group for billionaires who hate looking at distant windmills has pledged to continue fighting Cape Wind despite the fact that the project is now committed to … [Read more...]
Cape Wind Seals New Bedford Deal – Will Koch Finally Call Off Lawyers?
Cape Wind has signed a lease agreement to stage its 130-turbine project in Nantucket Sound out of New Bedford's South Terminal, reports Ariel Wittenberg in the Standard-Times: Cape Wind will pay a total of $4.5 million in rent to the … [Read more...]
A New Surprise Benefit of Cutting Lead Pollution
Studies have shown a strong connection between the phase-out of lead in gasoline starting in the mid-1970s and a plunge in violent crime in the following decades. As Kevin Drum reports at Mother Jones, a new study is connecting lower levels … [Read more...]
Through MIT’s Nuclear Goggles
Switzerland came to the Boston area a week or so ago. There was a conversation with one of the political leaders of the country, Doris Leuthard, Councillor of the Swiss Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy, and … [Read more...]
Phony Attack on Climate Action: The US Chamber Doesn’t Care About Jobs
The US Chamber of Commerce is putting the full force of its polluter-funded war chest behind fighting limits on industrial carbon pollution set to be announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday. Paul Krugman dives into their … [Read more...]
New Bedford Wind Energy Plan Would Save Taxpayers $20 Million
UPDATE 4/25: The New Bedford City Council briefly threatened to turn an easy touchdown into a fumble, but they managed to approve the contract. A proposed wind power contract for New Bedford isn't just feel-good - it's … [Read more...]
Methane Management: Crowdfunding Natural Gas Leak Monitoring
HEET [Home Energy Efficiency Team http://www.heetma.com ], a Cambridge, MA nonprofit which organizes public weatherization parties and barnraisings, is crowd funding a natural gas leak monitoring project in Cambridge and Somerville. Boston … [Read more...]
Building Energy Trade Show
Building Energy March 4-6 2014 Seaport WTC, Boston RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML Cost: $49 to $649 Free Trade Show pass with promo code: BASEAATBE14 (courtesy … [Read more...]
On Keystone XL, Will Obama & Kerry Follow Bush-Cheney Path?
President Obama talks a lot about standing up to the industrial carbon polluters disrupting our climate. So why does he act like the decision on Keystone XL tar sands pipeline - a carbon bomb & one he doesn't have to beg Congress to … [Read more...]
“Net zero is not a practical goal in New England”
Peter Wilson [in a Cambridgewickedlocal with news from the Chronicle and Tab LtE http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140220/NEWS/140229717/2014/OPINION] wrote that "Net zero is not a practical goal in New England" and that may or may … [Read more...]
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