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Sustainability Tonomia En

Eversource existing offshore wind business

EVERSOURCE, New England’s largest utility, said on Thursday that it plans to exit the offshore wind business and write down the value of its holdings by $220 million to $280 million. The utility said it is selling its 50 percent stake in an undeveloped 175,000-acrea lease area 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts for(...)
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Sustainability Tonomia En

My agenda for health cost benchmark hearings

IT’S MARCH, so that means it is time for the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournament and all of the suspense, surprise, and excitement connected to it. But March also brings us the 7th annual Massachusetts Health Policy Commission health care cost growth benchmark hearing—scheduled this year for March 15.  Though prior hearings have lacked any “buzzer(...)
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Climate Change Global Warming.

Climate change taking toll on Mass. farms

RYAN VOILAND, owner of Red Fire Farm in Montague and Granby, says growing organic vegetables is hard enough, but doing it amidst climate change makes it nearly impossible. In 2021, his crops suffered significant damage due to excessive rains. This year the drought forced him to water his crops repeatedly, which yielded a decent harvest(…)
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Global Warming. Renewable Energy.

Mass. shows interest in financing Maine wind project

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A 1,000 MEGAWATT onshore wind project planned for northern Maine and an associated transmission build-out “would provide benefits to Massachusetts and the region,” the Mass. Department of Energy Resources said as it determined that it makes sense to have Bay State ratepayers cover 40 percent of the project costs as part(…)
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Environment

Healey plucks AG aide as energy, environment secretary

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE REBECCA TEPPER, currently the chief of the energy and environment bureau in the attorney general’s office, will continue working under Maura Healey in the new year, joining the incoming governor’s Cabinet as secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. As EEA secretary, Tepper will oversee the state’s six(…)