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“Should a corporation poison your family for money?” Steyer asked the crowd. “Climate is the number one priority … not because we want it to be, but because it has to be.”
It’s time to call the governor out for being a shameless business-assist monkey right now, because later’s always too damn late.
The centuries-long relationship with Boston that made Chelsea a frontline community for environmental justice ...
Gov Baker has failed to lead on climate change, so it’s time for him to come face to face with the climate catastrophes around the state he is ignoring.
Against all odds, a dogged group of Fore River Basin residents decided to put up a fight, the ferocity of which Enbridge never saw coming.
When writing about human-induced global warming on a regular basis, it’s a good idea to pace oneself. Because it’s such a relentlessly depressing topic that highlighting it too often can backfire. Faced with an existential threat of such magnitude that ...
“People in this country are being taught to think that they don’t deserve pensions, that they don’t deserve good health care coverage ... But it doesn’t have to be this way.”
The events of last week in the Merrimack Valley were unfortunate by any measure. Something bad happened to the natural gas distribution system in parts of Lawrence, North Andover, and Andover that resulted in dozens of homes being damaged or destroyed by explosions ...
Residents in Dedham and West Roxbury are up in arms about what many see as a legitimate threat to their health and safety. Beyond the possibility of an explosion, there are other terrifying potential side effects of having the line run through a residential area.
Researchers say more than 4,000 mild, moderate, and severe "lost" gas leaks "vanished from public utility company data" between 2014 and 2015 despite no record of being repaired.
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