Beyond Coal Massachusetts

03/12/2020

For personal health and climate stability, writes Philip Warburg, it may be time to ground ourselves and give localism a chance.

02/12/2020

More than 50 campuses — including Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Tufts, MIT, Brandeis, Clark, Worcester Polytechnic, Stanford, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania — will work with Divest Ed to participate in Fossil Fuel Divestment Day.

02/10/2020

Now that the construction hassles of the proposed Allston highway project are clear, some advocates are urging MassDOT to consider other alternatives.

02/04/2020

Thank you AG Healey. This is a situation where she is defending the consumer AND the environment in one fell swoop - these companies are not only gouging the most vulnerable ratepayers, they are "greenwashing" by telling people they are selling a greener product when they really aren't.

THE COMPETITIVE ELECTRIC SUPPLY INDUSTRY has overcharged Massachusetts consumers for far too long. We’ve all seen these companies in action. They go door-to-door, send letters in the mail, and call over and over with promises of cheaper electricity, or a locked-in low rate that they claim will sav...

01/26/2020

A massive bald eagle is filmed in slow motion taking off from a street in Melrose, near Boston.

12/08/2019

"Emily Norton, a Newton city councilor and former director of the Massachusetts chapter of the Sierra Club, cointroduced the measure in the west Boston suburb. She doesn’t remember another time in her years working on environmental issues in the state when fossil fuel interests were fighting at the local level."

Brookline, Massachusetts, passed a measure prohibiting new oil and gas pipes, the first on the East Coast.

11/23/2019

Bless us, Father, for we have environmentally degraded.

09/18/2019

"... a recent study of methane leaks in cities in the Northeast shows that these leaks put out twice the amount of gas as the EPA thought."

The leaks can be stopped, but the financial incentives aren't in place.