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- Debate over the future of solar energy in Massachusetts heats up at the State House (3/2/14)
There's a battle brewing on Beacon Hill over the future of solar energy in the state. On one side, you have environmentalists, solar-panel installers and developers. On the other, there are the state’s biggest electric utilities — namely National Grid and NStar.
- Group pushes Mass. moratorium on fracking (2/20/14)
BOSTON — An environmental group is stepping up efforts to impose a moratorium on a natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing — or fracking
- Barney bag’ trash savings pegged at $1M (2/18/14)
The city’s “Barney bag” trash program turned 5 years old this month. And according to WasteZero — the company that coordinates and tracks Gloucester’s trash bag pickup and recycling programs — the savings are more than just environmental
- After rejecting request to delay shutdown, Brayton Point moves to close coal-fired plant in 2017 (1/29/14)
The owner of Brayton Point Power Station will move forward with a plan to shut down the coal-fired plant in 2017 after it turned down a request from the operator of the regional power grid to delay closing.
- Solar project generating new type of crop at Bolton Orchards (1/24/14)
BOLTON — The fields at Bolton Orchard are covered in snow, and it will be several months before the soil is tilled and seeds planted. But, on a 50-acre parcel behind the farm's store, the crop is coming in just fine.
- Mass. gives green light to gas-fired power plant (2/20/14)
SALEM — Massachusetts environmental officials have signed off on all the state and local permits and approvals needed for construction of a proposed 692-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant at the site of the existing Salem Harbor Station.
- Fall River pay-as-you-throw presentation on docket tonight; 2 others cancelled (2/20/14)
FALL RIVER — The City Council Committee on Health and Environmental Affairs will begin public presentations tonight from vendors vying for a contract with the city for a solid waste program
- Bill seeks to help Mass. prep for climate change (1/29/14)
BOSTON — A bill filed on Beacon Hill on Tuesday would create a "coastal buyback program" allowing the state to purchase land that is repeatedly threatened by damaging tides or is located in flood plain areas
- Dispute over proposed Springfield biomass plant heads for March hearing in Land Court (1/24/14)
Springfield -- A proposal to build a $150 million biomass wood-burning plant in East Springfield remains under litigation in two courts, with one hearing scheduled in March on a developer’s fight to obtain two building permits
- Study: Wind turbines don’t hurt home values (1/10/14)
A quasi-public agency responsible for promoting clean-energy technologies in the Bay State has released a study that found no significant effect of wind turbines on home values