State Electric Vehicle Rebates Need Long-term Stability
July 1, 2016
Huffington Post Blog * June 29, 2016 * By Gina Coplon-NewfieldWith many environmental safeguards on the books and several major cities on their way to 100% clean energy, California is helping guide the United States to a clean energy...
UMass Divest
June 17, 2016
On a damp day in April, I remember waking up to the Noon Rally in front of the Student Union at UMass Amherst. Students from all backgrounds and all majors gathered holding orange and black signs, symbolizing divestment. Singing songs of...
The North-South Rail Link
June 16, 2016
Boston’s North and South Stations are stub-end terminals located a little over a mile apart, each hosting commuter rail service as well as Amtrak’s long distance trains. As a result, arriving commuters must often transfer onto the city’s already...
Board of Building Regulations and Standards (BBRS) hearing
June 15, 2016
On June 14, 2016, the Board of Building Regulations and Standards (BBRS) held a public meeting about updates to the State Board of Building Regulations and Standards. The main focus of the hearing was on three amendments to proposed updates to...
Guest Blog: State High Court Rules in Favor of Global Warming Solutions Act
May 18, 2016
By Larry Chretien:
Unambiguous. That’s the word the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court used in it's unanimous decision to describe a requirement of the Department of Environmental Protection to write regulations ensuring that we see “declining...
Guest Blog: On Earth Day, Gloucester Resident Donates $1,000 of Renewable Electricity to Two Local Families
May 2, 2016
(Gloucester, MA) Senator Bruce Tarr joined the Earth Day event on April 22nd at the Cape Ann Community Cinema. Gloucester resident John Livermore presented Action, Inc. with a donation of $1,000 of clean solar electricity for two of their clients....
Step one to make politicians care about climate change - VOTE!
April 8, 2016
Change doesn’t happen unless people vote for it — and the changes needed to expedite our country’s shift away from fossil fuels won’t occur on a scale dramatic enough to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis unless legions of voters focused...
Riding Electric in Worcester
March 28, 2016
Roughly two years ago, the Worcester Regional Transit Authority (WRTA) replaced six of its city buses with all electric plug-in equivalents.
According to the MassDOT website, the new buses reduce WRTA emissions by over 50 tons and cost the city $...
A Democracy Awakening
March 4, 2016
April 16th through 18th, thousands of people from over 170 organizations are mobilizing in Washington, DC for Democracy Awakening to demand a democracy where every vote is heard and counted, all Americans have an equal voice and money doesn’t buy...
The Utilities are Shortchanging Our Energy Future and Eclipsing Massachusetts Solar Jobs and Projects
March 3, 2016
The utilities are foisting on the Baker Administration an energy policy that shortchanges the Commonwealth’s clean energy future by promoting H.3854, legislation that would gut the solar industry.