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Gov. Baker skewed the Health Impact Assessment for the Weymouth gas compressor

September 15, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

In response to residents of the South Shore complaining about the proposed Enbridge gas compressor, in 2018 Gov. Baker threw them a bone: A Health Impact Assessment, to be finished before the permitting process in January 2019. In a weird … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, clean-air-act, gas, massdep, natural-gas, weymouth

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

The Weymouth gas compressor lacks a permit. Why is it still being built?

July 15, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

Six weeks ago, a federal court vacated the permit for the Enbridge gas compressor being built in Weymouth, on the grounds that the beleaguered and under-funded and un-minded Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection didn't follow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: clean-air-act, gas, natural-gas, weymouth

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

Health experts blast gas in NEJM

December 8, 2019 By Charley on the MTA

I saw this "Perspective" piece in the New England Journal of Medicine ... and I thought I recognized one of the authors' names. Dr. Philip Landrigan is the Director of the Global Health program at Harvard's School of Public Health; but he's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, gas, HSPH, natural-gas, NEJM, PSR, weymouth

Weymouth gas compressor: This could blow up

December 2, 2019 By Charley on the MTA

With all permits in hand, construction on Enbridge's Weymouth gas compressor is set to begin tomorrow. This is the result of a rigged, heads-we-win-tails-you-lose process that has ignored near-unanimous community opposition, and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, FRACCS, gas, natural-gas, weymouth, Weymouth compressor

They Are Not The Same: Markey battled; Kennedy dithered on gas pipelines

September 25, 2019 By Charley on the MTA

We will hear this often throughout this primary: "Markey and Kennedy don't differ much on the issues." We'll even hear that Joe endorsed the Green New Deal -- without giving credit to its author, one Ed Markey. But this kind of talk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: JKIII, kennedy, markey, natural-gas, pipelines

Cough-cough-Kafka: The #WeymouthCompressor runs out of gas?

May 23, 2019 By Charley on the MTA

The Weymouth Compressor case added a few new wild plot twists in the last fortnight. On substantive, process, and political grounds, this is a growing embarrassment for MassDEP — and for Baker himself.  This case is a big deal, for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, FRACCS, gas, massdep, natural-gas, weymouth, Weymouth compressor

Ann Berwick states the obvious: “Natural gas is not a clean fuel”

May 23, 2018 By Charley on the MTA

Just to amplify another experienced, reality-based voice calling out the Boston Globe for its series (!) of pro-pipeline editorials. This time it's former Department of Public Utilities chair Ann Berwick -- but stop me if you've heard this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: electricity, energy, natural-gas, pipelines, renewables

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

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