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Commentary: Move swiftly on clean energy permitting reform
Massachusetts not only can get more clean energy projects built more quickly, but also it can become a guiding light for other states, demonstrating how common sense siting and permitting policies can unlock significant investment, create jobs, and ensure a clean energy future. In Massachusetts and across the country, it’s harder than ever to build new infrastructure — whether it’s roads and bridges, houses and offices, or power lines.
Transit offered as mitigation for maternity ward closure
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE UMASS MEMORIAL Medical Center officials intend to work with transit officials to help redirect patients to other area hospitals, especially UMass Memorial Medical Center's campus in Worcester, if they follow through with a Leominster maternity ward's closure.
Boston launches coordinated plan to curb gun violence
Isaac Yablo, Mayor Michelle Wu's senior advisor for community safety, says a shortcoming of efforts to rein in those responsible for gun violence in Boston has been that "we gave them the wrong diagnosis and therefore [applied] the wrong solution." He says the nature of gun violence in the city has changed significantly since the bloody days of the 1980s and early 1990s, when city streets were wracked by gang violence that sent Boston's homicide count soaring.
Three steps for turning the power grid around
THE UTTER DEVASTATION of summer flooding in New England and New York and the Canadian wildfire smoke that shrouded the Northeast in an orange haze in June shouts an inescapable truth louder than any voice: Climate change knows no geographic boundaries. Like it or not, the climate crisis is a global and regional issue. We're in it together, and we'll have to get out of it together.
What’s next after stunning Maine rebuke - CommonWealth Magazine
LAST TUESDAY’S stunning rebuke by Maine voters of a utility transmission project has dramatic implications for Massachusetts’ clean energy and climate strategy. The so-called New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line would have delivered low carbon electricity from Canadian hydroelectric plants, and has been a key pillar of the Baker administration’s plan for meeting the Bay State’s ambitious climate targets.
What we need in climate change legislation - CommonWealth Magazine
THE COLLISION of an escalating climate crisis with a brutal COVID-19 pandemic that continues to rage across the country, taking lives, and livelihoods with it, has been devastating. In the same month, we saw over 1,000 dead per day from the pandemic, all amid a backdrop of raging fires, eerily orange skies, and charred buildings.
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