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JON LAMSON

A MASSACHUSETTS FOSSIL FUEL LOBBYING REVIEW

As Prices Soar, Fossil Fuel Industry Looks After Its Interests On Beacon Hill As gas prices and heating costs skyrocket across Massachusetts, fossil fuel producers and providers are spending hundreds of thousands to promote their political agendas to state officials and lawmakers. The state’s five for-profit utilities, which function as

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JON LAMSON February 28, 2023
The mouth of Alewife Brook at the Mystic River. The bridge carries the Mystic Valley Parkway bewtween Somerville and Arlington, Massachusetts. Photo by Magicpiano. GNU Free Documentation License 2017 Magicpiano.
LINDA PINKOW

HOW TO CONTROL SEWAGE OVERFLOWS

Somerville, Cambridge, MWRA jointly update communities on long-term environmental planning to protect waterways from wastewater (Somerville Wire) – Most sewer systems in the United States have two dedicated, separated networks of pipes—one for sewage and one for stormwater. But many parts of Cambridge and Somerville have combined sewer systems, with

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LINDA PINKOW December 21, 2022
EMILEE KLEIN

THE FLOOD: MASS HAS A RUNOFF PROBLEM. WHAT’S BEING DONE?

Thanks to stormwater pollution, Dirty Water’s more than just a theme song. It’s a way of life.

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EMILEE KLEIN July 25, 2021
SUREN MOODLIAR

THE MOST DANGEROUS SQUARE MILE

The centuries-long relationship with Boston that made Chelsea a frontline community for environmental justice

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SUREN MOODLIAR September 18, 2019
ITAI VARDI

A CLIMATE FIGHT FOR THE AGES

After four years of struggle, Weymouth activists continue to challenge the fossil fuel industrial complex

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ITAI VARDI September 18, 2019
BINJ ONLINE

A SPECIAL CLIMATE CRISIS ISSUE

Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a single coverage topic.

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BINJ ONLINE September 18, 2019
JASON PRAMAS

THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT TO COME

If brilliant Boston and the supposedly clever state surrounding it can’t get their climate remediation and preparedness acts together, how are less wealthy parts of the country supposed to manage the job?

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JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2019
VINCENT GABRIELLE

THE NEW POLLUTANTS

A growing body of research suggests that, in and around traffic, what you can’t see may be killing you

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VINCENT GABRIELLE August 9, 2019
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