HOPEFULLY, NEW ENGLAND WILL BE LUCKY this winter. No Polar Vortex. No endless snowstorm piling nine feet of frozen fluff on Boston. But whatever our luck, there are certain unavoidable […]
Environment
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Let’s boost solar with smaller subsidies
LEGISLATORS ARE HAVING A HEATED DEBATE over the subsidies that flow to those who install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. That debate has been largely portrayed as dividing environmentalists and solar […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
House floats bill lifting solar net metering cap
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE HOUSE LEADERS ARE FLOATING a strategy to expand the solar industry in Massachusetts that would more than double the amount of installed solar capacity and eventually […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
House to address solar cap before break
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE HOUSE SPEAKER ROBERT DELEO indicated Friday that the House would address the issue of the solar net metering cap separately from more comprehensive energy legislation that […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
Marlborough gasoline spill upends lives
KAREN BUCKLEY WANTS out. But she can’t go anywhere because she and her husband — along with three other Marlborough families — are stuck in homes that have lost a huge […]
Posted inEnvironment, The Back Story
Solar fight getting nasty
THE FIGHT OVER SOLAR POWER incentives is coming to a head on Beacon Hill, and it’s getting nasty. Earlier this week, the leaders of six major business groups across the […]
Posted inEnvironment
Mass. wins top spot on energy efficiency scorecard
MASSACHUSETTS ON WEDNESDAY WON THE TOP SPOT in the 2015 state energy efficiency scorecard for the fifth year in a row. Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut were all in the […]
Posted inEnvironment, The Back Story
Q&A: Sorting out solar
It seems like solar power was going great guns under former governor Deval Patrick, but now everyone is fighting about it. What’s going on? Solar did do phenomenally well under […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
More natural gas, not LNG, is the answer
AS NEW ENGLAND PREPARES for another winter, there is a growing consensus among energy policy makers in New England that more natural gas is needed to mitigate the high cost […]
Posted inEnvironment
Pilgrim shifts Beacon Hill energy debate
THE LOOMING SHUTDOWN of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth is quickly transforming the debate about energy on Beacon Hill, moving it out of the policy-wonk arena and into the […]
Posted inEnvironment
What Pilgrim decision says about energy market
NO MATTER WHERE YOU STAND on nuclear power, the thought process behind Entergy Corp.’s decision to shut down its reactor in Plymouth reveals a lot about the energy market in […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics, State House News Service
Plum Island at risk
Photographs by Mark Morelli except headline photograph by Gabrielle Gurley PLUM ISLAND ISÂ one of the most spectacular places to live in Massachusetts. With high dunes and rolling beaches on the […]
Posted inGambling
Baker administration deals blow to Wynn
STATE ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICIALS dealt a major blow to the proposed Wynn Resorts casino in Everett Friday night by ordering the Las Vegas company to make another round of revisions to […]
