A correction has been added to this story. THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES  on Friday approved 20-year power purchase agreements between the state’s three major utilities and the offshore wind […]
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 inEnvironment, Media
Top Codcast: Three scrappy women from Somerset
COMMONWEALTH’S MOST POPULAR Codcast of 2022 was an interview with three women from Somerset who fought back against a scrap metal export operation at Brayton Point that was launched after […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker’s take on the state Republican Party
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER would like to see the Massachusetts Republican Party rebuild and recover, but he says it first has to go through a transformation, much as he did after […]
Posted inEnergy, Environment, State Government
Utilities urge DPU to force wind developer’s hand
EVERSOURCE, NATIONAL GRID, and Unitil are urging state regulators to require Avangrid to push ahead with its 1,200-megawatt Commonwealth Wind project even though the company says the price it would […]
Posted inTransportation
Healey goes with a team approach on transportation
GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY named two women to head the state’s transportation bureaucracy on Friday, appointing Gina Fiandaca as secretary and Monica Tibbits-Nutt as undersecretary. Fiandaca has experience overseeing large transportation […]
Posted inHealth Care
No clear answers on Sudders’s shift in tone
LAST WEEK, Marylou Sudders sounded like she wanted to stay on as the state’s secretary of health and human services. This week, she put in her retirement papers. What happened […]
Posted inTransportation
Gonneville to serve as the T’s interim GM
JEFFREY GONNEVILLE, the deputy general manager of the MBTA, will take over as the interim general manager when Steve Poftak steps down on January 3. As the T’s second-highest-ranking official, […]
Posted inEnergy, Environment
Baker administration fleshes out 2050 climate plan
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION on Wednesday released a 168-page climate plan for 2050 that follows the same general playbook that’s been outlined in the past – increase production of clean electricity; […]
Posted inEnergy, State Government
Santa comes early for offshore wind businesses
CHRISTMAS CAME early for the fledgling offshore wind industry in Massachusetts, as the Baker administration handed out $180 million on Tuesday for infrastructure improvements and businesses in New Bedford, Somerset, […]
Posted inEnergy
With Commonwealth Wind out, focus turns to Mayflower
AVANGRID PULLED ITS Commonwealth Wind project out of the latest Massachusetts offshore wind procurement on Friday, and now many are wondering what the lone remaining participant, Mayflower Wind, will do. […]
Posted inState Government
Healey appoints cabinet rover on climate change
GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY named an environmental attorney as her cabinet-level climate chief on Monday, setting in motion another experiment in the best way to manage state bureaucracies that have independent […]
Posted inHealth Care
Could Marylou Sudders be staying on?
Editor’s note: After The Codcast went live and this report on it was published, Sudders notified employees that she would be stepping down January 3. AFTER EIGHT YEARS as secretary […]
Posted inPolitics
Super PAC with ties to Baker accused of breaking law
MASSACHUSETTS REGULATORS accused a super PAC with close ties to Gov. Charlie Baker of breaking state campaign finance law by holding a fundraiser in July where the governor was the […]
Posted inEnergy
Avangrid pulls out of major Mass. offshore wind procurement
AVANGRID PULLED OUT of a major Massachusetts offshore wind procurement at the final stage on Friday, saying its previously negotiated power purchase contract was no longer adequate to secure financing […]
Posted inGambling
Can casinos expand gaming beyond their original footprint?
IN FEBRUARY, Wynn Resorts proposed an entertainment complex across the street from its existing Everett casino, complete with a theater, bars and restaurants, a parking garage, and eventually additional hotels. […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
CLT chief accuses Baker of cowardice on Amirault pardons
THE RETIRING executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation on Thursday accused Gov. Charlie Baker of cowardice in withdrawing his bid to pardon Gerald Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave, who […]
Posted inTransportation
At-grade I-90 Allston project called ‘preferred alternative’
AFTER YEARS OF indecision and delays, state transportation officials on Monday formally bowed to what public stakeholders have wanted for some time and designated a challenging all-at-grade approach as the […]
Posted inGovernment
Lessons learned from guaranteed income experiments
CHELSEA, DRAWING on state, municipal, and philanthropic funding, gave nearly 2,213 families $400 a month via cash cards for eight months under a program dubbed Chelsea Eats. United South End […]
Posted inEconomy
Rivera gets long contract extension at MassDevelopment
WITH LESS THAN a month before a new governor takes over, the MassDevelopment board of directors approved a long-term contract extension for Daniel Rivera, the authority’s president and chief executive officer. […]
Posted inTransportation
Biotech workers driving more, using the T less
SURVEYS OF LIFE science employees by MassBio in July 2019 and November 2022 indicate workers are now driving more and using public transportation less. The survey results mirror what the […]
Posted inTransportation
Buried rail car turned up in GLX excavation
THE TEAM that constructed the Green Line extension to Medford and Somerville encountered all sorts of obstacles over the last four years, including unexpected bedrock, contaminated soil, ground water, and, […]
Posted inEnergy
​​Mass. again comes in 2nd on energy efficiency efforts
FOR THE SECOND year in a row, Massachusetts came in second behind California on a national scorecard of energy efficiency efforts. Massachusetts earned 44.5 out of a possible 50 points, […]
Posted inTransportation
Baker, Polito call South Coast Rail a matter of fairness
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito said the $1 billion South Coast Rail project scheduled to open late next year is about fairness to southeastern Massachusetts. At the […]
Posted inHealth, Health Care
Epidemiologist lays out her COVID-19 ‘campaign of honesty’
WHEN THE CORONAVIRUS vaccines first emerged, they were shown to have 94 to 95 percent efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. It was a situation where the message from public health […]