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“Breaking our will” — or finding it?

February 17, 2021 By Charley on the MTA

Gov. Baker essentially pushed out his undersecretary for Climate Affairs, David Ismay, over some comments he made to a group of Vermont community leaders working on climate change. In talking about the inherent difficulties in changing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, David Ismay, global-warming, Mass Fiscal Alliance

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

Healing Earth (Through the Waters)

March 18, 2019 By gmoke

John Todd, author of Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2019 ISBN 9781623172985) (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/healing-earth/), has spent his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: biology, climate-change, ecology, environment, global-warming, green, sustainability, waterquality

Another Record-Setting Heat Wave, More Boston Media Climate Silence

August 30, 2018 By thegreenmiles

As meteorologists forecast this week's sweltering heat and humidity to finally break tonight, here's a recap of this week's late-summer heat wave: Boston had its second-hottest night ever, never going below 81 in the early morning of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: boston-globe, climate, climate-change, climate-crisis, environment, global-warming, heat wave, media

A Demand for Progress on Climate

April 1, 2018 By drtucker

Like gun violence, chronic poverty and unequal health care coverage, the problem of unchecked greenhouse gas pollution won’t solve itself. As important as local and state efforts to reduce the emissions imperiling our planet are, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: #exxonknew, Attleboro Sun-Chronicle, boston-globe, Citizens Climate Lobby, Committee for a Green Economy, Department of the Interior, Donald Trump, Environmental Protection Agency, Eric Schneiderman, fracking, Gary Rucinski, global-warming, gun-control, human-caused climate change, income-inequality, Joseph Kennedy III, March for Our Lives, Maura Healey, medicare-for-all, natural-gas, Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt, second-amendment, Taunton Daily Gazette

Globe, put down the pipe

March 6, 2018 By Charley on the MTA

Even yet still another baffling, curdled-milk editorial endorsing more gas pipeline infrastructure, torching (see what I did there) us anti-pipeline "faddists"; and going so far as to flame Sens. Jamie Eldridge and Marc Pacheco and AG … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: boston-globe, Eversource, global-warming, ISO-NE, natural-gas, pipelines

Holding out for better things in the pipeline

January 19, 2018 By Charley on the MTA

ISO-NE, our regional power grid managers, issued a new report warning of dire consequences unless we build out for MOAR GAS. Rolling blackouts! "Appeals to the public to reduce energy usage" ... horrors. I suspect we'll get full scrutiny of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: global-warming, ISO-NE, natural-gas, pipelines

Globe blows it on gas

January 11, 2018 By Charley on the MTA

Apparently we used more oil and coal in the cold snap. That's bad. The Globe's unsigned editorial has identified exactly the wrong culprit, and the wrong solution: Two culprits stand out. First, efforts by some environmental activists … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: boston-globe, Eversource, global-warming, ISO-NE, natural-gas, pipelines

Baker on fracked gas: He has to choose.

November 22, 2017 By Charley on the MTA

To follow up on the press release from the pipeline protestors at the State House ... The vastness of the climate issue really requires us to organize our thoughts a bit. Some things are more important than others; there is a hierarchy of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, climate, global-warming, natural-gas, pipelines

Asked About Climate Risks, Trump is on to Cincinnati

March 22, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Donald Trump sat down with the Washington Post editorial board and revealed that you don't need to know anything about anything to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Trump talked about how if sanctions don't work, you just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, Donald Trump, global-warming

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