THE UTTER DEVASTATION of summer flooding in New England and New York and the Canadian wildfire smoke that shrouded the Northeast in an orange haze in June shouts an inescapable truth louder than any voice: Climate change knows no geographic boundaries. Like it or not, the climate crisis is a global and regional issue. We’re […]
Jeremy McDiarmid
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What’s next after stunning Maine rebuke
LAST TUESDAY’S stunning rebuke by Maine voters of a utility transmission project has dramatic implications for Massachusetts’ clean energy and climate strategy. The so-called New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line would have delivered low carbon electricity from Canadian hydroelectric plants, and has been a key pillar of the Baker administration’s plan for meeting the […]
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What we need in climate change legislation
THE COLLISION of an escalating climate crisis with a brutal COVID-19 pandemic that continues to rage across the country, taking lives, and livelihoods with it, has been devastating. In the same month, we saw over 1,000 dead per day from the pandemic, all amid a backdrop of raging fires, eerily orange skies, and charred buildings. […]
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An unsustainable status quo
absent the ability to peer into a crystal ball, no one knows what kinds of fuels the cars and trucks of the future will run on. Many of us have high hopes for a world where cars are fueled by electricity generated from renewable wind energy, or by natural gas recovered from landfills, or by […]