Conservation Law Foundation released a statement this afternoon regarding a historic decision by the state's highest court enforcing the Global Warming Solutions Act. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released its decision today in Kain et al. v. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), affirming the State’s obligations under the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) … Continue reading Mass High Court Upholds Climate Mandate
Month: May 2016
‘New’ nuclear reactors? Same old story
The two main obstacles to new designs for nuclear reactors are still exactly the same: cost and unforeseen technical problems: The nuclear industry is forever reinventing itself with one brilliant 'new' idea after another, Amory Lovins wrote in this classic 2009 essay. But whether it's touting the wonders of future SMRs, IFRs or LFTRs, the … Continue reading ‘New’ nuclear reactors? Same old story
Cape Wind goes to court again
(April 27 story in CommonWealth Magazine, in the Environment section) Cape Wind appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court at the end of April because of the decision by a state board, the Energy Facilities Siting Board, to deny a two-year extension of transmission permits. Cape Wind claims that the siting board exceeded its authority and … Continue reading Cape Wind goes to court again
Letter: SSU urged to divest from fossil fuel companies
In today's Salem News: To the editor: In order to limit the global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius, 80 percent of currently listed fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground, unburnable, as stranded assets. It is unconscionable for Salem State University to continue to profit from fossil fuel companies and investments … Continue reading Letter: SSU urged to divest from fossil fuel companies
Moulton to host Q&A at ‘Merchants of Doubt’ film
Film focuses on efforts to discredit climate change, other issues Almost every seat was filled at the National Park Service Visitors Center last night, for a screening of the film, Merchants of Doubt (the story referred to above ran in the Salem News on May 5th). The film showed how the struggle to expose the tobacco industry's practice of … Continue reading Moulton to host Q&A at ‘Merchants of Doubt’ film
