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CALIF & MASS: Joining Global Conservation Organization

October 21, 2025 News Editor Comments Off

BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 21, 2025 (ENS) – The State of Massachusetts and the State of California have announced their intentions to join the nonprofit International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN. Based in Switzerland, the IUCN is the world’s largest and most diverse environmental membership network with 1,400 governments and non-governmental organizations committed to global action on biodiversity conservation. […]

MASSACHUSETTS: Nantucket Fights New Offshore Wind Permit

December 5, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

BOSTON, Massachusetts, December 5, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a draft Clean Air Act Outer Continental Shelf permit for Southcoast Wind’s 147 wind turbines in federal waters south of Nantucket. […]

MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke Must Spend $27M to Beat Sewage Overflow

March 23, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

HOLYOKE, Massachusetts, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – The Justice Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have entered into a $27 million agreement with the City […]

RHODE ISLAND: Requires 100 Percent Renewable Power by 2033

June 27, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 27, 2022 (ENS) – Rhode Island lawmakers last week passed a bill requiring that within 10 years 100 percent of electricity sold in the state come […]

Massachusetts Drinking Water Polluted With Firefighting Foam

May 25, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25, 2022 (ENS) – State Attorney General Maura Healey today sued 13 manufacturers of poly- and perfluoroalkyl, PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals used in firefighting foam. They include some of the biggest firms in the country, such as 3M of St. Paul, Minnesota, which makes fluorochemicals. […]

MASSACHUSETTS: Sticks With California Clean Trucks Regulation

January 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 7, 2022 (ENS) – To reduce transportation emissions and accelerate the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has filed emergency regulations with the […]

NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND: Offshore Wind Will Power 70,000 Homes

December 5, 2021 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2021 (ENS) – The construction and operations of the South Fork Wind power project offshore Rhode Island and New York has been approved by the Department […]

MASSACHUSETTS: Cracks Down on Idling Diesel School Buses

September 13, 2021 News Editor Comments Off

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has reached a settlement with a New Bedford-based school bus company over allegations that its drivers excessively idled their buses at New Bedford schools. […]

MASSACHUSETTS: First U.S. Commercial Offshore Wind Park Approved

May 26, 2021 News Editor Comments Off

NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts, May 26, 2021 (ENS) – To be located in the Atlantic Ocean 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, the first commercial-scale offshore wind park in the United […]