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East Boston vs. the dumb, dangerous, expensive, sub-standard substation

February 5, 2021 By Charley on the MTA

One of the things you keep seeing on the enviro/climate beat is powerful entities' insistence on doing things a dumb old harmful way, when there's a cheaper healthier easier alternative, right at hand. We've got the ongoing, bewildering … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: chelsea, clean-energy, climate, East Boston substation, east-boston, environment, environmental-justice

House voting on climate amendments RIGHT NOW

July 30, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is right now taking up amendments on its climate bill. They passed the basic bill already, and it has not elicited praise from environment advocates. Here’s Ben Hellerstein, quoted by State House … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: climate, environmental-justice, natural-gas

Nathan Phillips hunger strike, day 7 — please make the calls

February 4, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

Why does a man have to starve himself, just to get the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protect the public in the most basic way? When you really think about it ... you wonder how it's ever come to this. As I mentioned nearly a week ago, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: climate, climate-change, enbridge, environment, environmental-justice, FRRACS, gas, gas pipelines, global-warming, Nathan Phillips, natural-gas, pipelines, weymouth, Weymouth compressor

#SolarisWorking! Now tell Speaker Deleo to Sun Up.

July 24, 2015 By joelwool

This week, bipartisan leaders in the Massachusetts Senate acted to lifted a cap on solar net metering. Net metering is the way we buy and sell the sun's energy in the Bay State (and most of the country) and it's a solid system for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: economy, environment, environmental-justice, solar

Chevron ordered to pay $17 billion for Ecuador pollution

February 15, 2011 By empowerment

Which side are you on, Governor Patrick? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chevron, deval-patrick, ecuador, environmental-justice, law-and-lawyers, lawsuit, texaco

Extending the Green Line by 2014 is a legal commitment

August 17, 2007 By ereisner

The comments about the Green Line extensions to Somerville and Medford reveal that people do not fully understand why it is critical for Somerville.  If you agree that transportation improvements in densely populated urban areas are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: air-pollution, environmental-justice, green-line, random, urban-density

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