Environment Archives

Opinion: More Radioactive Waste With Nowhere To Go

The experimental technology promoted by the governor, the nuclear industry, and some academic institutions is still on the drawing board and has no proven cost parameters

CAPE DOWNWINDERS November 5, 2025

Collage by Jason Pramas. Downloaded from BINJ's paid Canva account on August 28, 2025.

Boston’s Zero Waste Initiative Falls Short On Commercial Waste

Despite businesses producing the majority of the city’s waste, efforts to reduce it have been largely focused on residential programs

JORDAN DELFIUGO August 28, 2025

Disparities Remain Across Boston’s Access To Tree Cover, Green Space, Data Shows

Experts say it’s a difficult problem to fix, but worth trying to do so

MARY RANDOLPH July 24, 2025

African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters demonstrating outside the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; some hold signs with portraits of slain civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

The Minimum Program: A Strategy For Political Mobilization

We can rebuild the Mass. (and US) left by fighting for democracy, human rights, environmental restoration, peace, and bread-and-butter economic guarantees for working people

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025

photo of Ipswich, Mass. farmer Shendel Bakal holding up some beets

Rain, Rain, Gone Away: Massachusetts Farmers Struggle Amid Worsening Drought Crisis

Massachusetts Farmers Struggle Amid Worsening Drought Crisis

OLIVIA CAFARELLI MANZI February 6, 2025

Alewife Activists Give Tearful Testimonies At MBTA Board Meeting

“I am horrified by the lack of MBTA’s concern for public health in this area.” Cambridge residents decry planned heavy digging through asbestos and air out other concerns.

CHRIS FARAONE December 19, 2024

THE BEST OF BINJ: ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING

We cover all disasters – from natural, to the man-made ones. Here’s some of our best environmental reporting from the first decade of BINJ

BINJ ONLINE December 9, 2024

Eternal Shuttle: The Cost And Inconvenience Of MBTA Track Repair In Photos

It’s clear that the MBTA is already looking past its shuttle costs, which according to bid documents are expected to run approximately $250 million over five years. This is a documentation of what Greater Bostonians endured during track repairs.

DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN November 25, 2024

APPARENT HORIZON RETURNS, COLUMN RUNS ON COUNTERPUNCH

Latest piece is on how for a growing number of people, global warming is already a serious and worsening health threat

BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM September 1, 2024

APPARENT HORIZON: CANARY IN A CARBON TRAP

For a growing number of people like me, global warming is already a serious and worsening health threat

JASON PRAMAS August 22, 2024