HOUSE SPEAKER Ronald Mariano sent an email to all House members Monday night dropping his bid to gain quick passage of omnibus gun control legislation and instead pledging to address […]
Bruce Mohl
Bruce Mohl oversees the production of content and edits reports, along with carrying out his own reporting with a particular focus on transportation, energy, and climate issues.
He previously worked at the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe’s State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe’s Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state’s pension system. He served as the Globe’s political editor in 1994 and went on to cover consumer issues for the newspaper.
Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Posted inNews Analysis, State Government
Sending a message on Beacon Hill
WHEN THE HOUSE AND SENATE chairs of a joint legislative committee began holding hearings separately rather than together in mid-June, House Speaker Ron Mariano dismissed the notion that the dispute […]
Posted inEnergy, Government
Ominous offshore wind news from Rhode Island
IN WHAT COULD BE a foreshadowing of future offshore wind pricing, Rhode Island’s leading utility this week opted not to move forward with a project called Revolution Wind 2 because […]
Posted inTransportation
Sumner Tunnel congestion called ‘manageable’
TRAVEL TIMES increased when the Sumner Tunnel shut down for repairs on July 5, but the congestion has been manageable so far, the state highway administrator said on Wednesday. At […]
Posted inEnergy, State Government
Retail electricity firms take new tack in fight against Healey, Campbell, and Wu
GOV. MAURA HEALEY, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu are all on record as saying electricity retailers are the modern-day equivalent of snake oil salesmen who should […]
Posted inEnergy
Avangrid agrees to pay $48m to terminate offshore wind deal
AVANGRID AND THE STATE’S three major utilities on Monday agreed to terminate a power purchase agreement they signed just last year, with the offshore wind developer agreeing to pay a total […]
Posted inEnergy, State Government
House provision would allow renegotiation of hydro contracts
A SPENDING BILL coming up for action in the Massachusetts House contains a provision that would allow the terms of a massive 2019 contract for hydropower from Quebec to be […]
Posted inHealth Care
Mass General Brigham says cost cutting on track
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM, the state’s largest and most expensive health care system, says it is on track to meet the cost savings target it agreed to as part of a […]
Posted inEnergy
Shift in thinking on nuclear power
ATTITUDES TOWARD nuclear power are changing in Europe and here in Massachusetts. The Swedish parliament voted recently to change the country’s energy goal from 100 percent renewable to 100 percent […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA offering reading material on the Blue Line
THE MBTA is offering another enticement to drivers to get out of their cars during the Sumner Tunnel closure – free access to digital newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, and e-books at […]
Posted inEnergy
Why Barnstable is integral to offshore wind plans
PEOPLE FLOCK TO Barnstable for the beaches, but offshore wind developers are coming to that section of Cape Cod for a different reason. Ken Kimmell, vice president of offshore wind […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA speed restrictions trending in wrong direction
THE PERCENTAGE of MBTA subway tracks with speed restrictions is heading in the wrong direction. In March, T officials said they uncovered some unspecified breakdown in rail repair work, which […]
Posted inEnergy
Grid shifts to operating reserves to deal with transmission outage
THE NEW ENGLAND power grid experienced a transmission outage at 6 p.m. Wednesday night and dealt with the electricity shortage by tapping resources it keeps on standby to deal with […]
Posted inEnergy
Mass. solar potential called enormous
THE HEALEY ADMINISTRATION unveiled a new mapping tool on Thursday that suggests the state has the potential to generate an enormous amount of solar power. In a press release, the […]
Posted inTransportation
Short circuit blamed for 2022 passenger death at Broadway Station
FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS have concluded that a short circuit on a Red Line train set off a chain of events in April 2022 that allowed a passenger trying to exit the […]
Posted inPolitics
Rep. mixes it up with ‘former government official’
REP. WILLIAM STRAUS, the House chair of the Legislature’s Transportation Committee, on Monday took aim at “a former government official” who believes the best way to solve the MBTA’s problems […]
Posted inTransportation
Eng mum on cause of slow zones, timetable for elimination
MBTA GENERAL MANAGER Phillip Eng on Monday touted progress in addressing slow zones on the subway system, but he declined to explain how the problem surfaced or provide a timeline […]
Posted inEnergy, Government
Cape Cod residents voice concerns on offshore wind transmission lines
MOST OF THE INITIAL wind farms off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard plan to bring their electricity ashore on Cape Cod, but some residents are starting to ask why. “There […]
Posted inEnergy
Campbell at odds with Healey on offshore wind
ATTORNEY GENERAL Andrea Campbell and Gov. Maura Healey are the closest of political allies, but they are staking out very different positions on the state’s next offshore wind procurement. The […]
Posted inMedia, Transportation
3 agencies, including MBTA, will pay Sumner mitigation costs
THE STATE HIGHWAY administrator said the traffic mitigation costs associated with the repairs of the Sumner Tunnel will be borne by the Department of Transportation, the MBTA, and the Massachusetts […]
Posted inTransportation
Eng cites progress, but T speed restrictions on rise
MBTA GENERAL MANAGER Phillip Eng reported Thursday that the agency is making progress in eliminating slow zones on subway lines, but the T’s performance dashboard indicates the amount of track […]
Posted inEnvironment
Reading tea leaves on Tepper
REBECCA TEPPER, the governor’s secretary of energy and environmental affairs, made an interesting impression at this week’s field hearing of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Maine. In a crowd […]
Posted inEnvironment
Final regulations target nitrogen pollution on Cape
THE HEALEY ADMINISTRATION issued final regulations on Wednesday aimed at addressing Cape Cop’s nitrogen pollution, which is caused by wastewater from septic systems finding its way into waterbodies where it […]
Posted inEducation
Sex ed gets an update in state’s new curriculum framework
ABSTINENCE IS A WORD that appears frequently in the state’s current curriculum framework for health education, which was released nearly 25 years ago in 1999. The 1999 framework, a guide […]