Steve Andrada's #StopPeabodyPeaker tells the story of how community activists shed light on a fossil fuel project that never should have been approved.
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Pollution Inequality Is Racism
The Peabody Peaker is one of three fossil fuel infrastructure projects that have been recently sited in environmental justice neighborhoods.
Climate Activists March against the DPU at South Station
Activists demand Healey appoint commissioners to the Department of Public Utilities who will push the utilities to address climate change.
A better way to heat our homes
Representatives Cynthia Creem and Lori Ehrlich explain why the "Future of Heat" bill is the best path forward for home heating in a Boston Globe op ed.
Haunted by Gas Leaks?
Find the gas leaks in Salem's neighborhoods!
Indoor Air Quality-Methane in Our Houses?
None of us should be living in homes with leaking natural gas/methane that causes asthma and COPD. But some of us do. Usually we’ll smell the gas, but sometimes we become so accustomed to the odor (turning on a gas stove) that we begin to ignore it. Don’t. Compound the known presence of leaking gas … Continue reading Indoor Air Quality-Methane in Our Houses?
As Trump Rolls Back Environmental Regs, Coal Operations Expand
The following story, authored by SAFE board member Karen Kahn, is reposted from the Nonprofit Quarterly. Rural Action, an Appalachian Ohio nonprofit, has spent two decades working to clean up a watershed in Southeastern Ohio polluted by old coal mines. Now, the organization and its supporters are fighting the permitting of a new surface mine proposed by … Continue reading As Trump Rolls Back Environmental Regs, Coal Operations Expand
PA to MA: The Fracking Connection
by Patricia A. Gozemba Tuesday, March 6 at 7 PM - 9 PM 45 Pauline St, Winthrop, MA Clean Water Action, Mothers Out Front, and Mass Power Forward are bringing people from the fracking fields of the Marcellus Shale in PA to MA to share their stories of the daily horrors that they live with … Continue reading PA to MA: The Fracking Connection
The Hidden Costs of Salem’s Gas Leaks
SAFE Public Forum, November 28, 2017 How many dangerous gas leaks lurk under the streets of Salem, MA, is a question of debate. But SAFE knows that there are many gas leaks and we’re concerned because 95% of gas is methane—a potent force in climate change. Additionally, methane leaks kill trees, are potentially explosive, hurt … Continue reading The Hidden Costs of Salem’s Gas Leaks
SJC nixes ‘pipeline tax’/Says Baker administration order violated intent of earlier laws
Ratepayers will not have not pay a special tax so that new natural gas pipelines can be built in Massachusetts. From Bruce Mohl (Editor, CommonWealth Magazine) -- THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT ruled on Wednesday that the Baker administration can not authorize the state’s electric utilities to tap their ratepayers for the money to finance a … Continue reading SJC nixes ‘pipeline tax’/Says Baker administration order violated intent of earlier laws
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