Oct 17, 2024
What is Massachusetts’ Energy Efficiency Plan?
State utility companies just released the final draft of the state’s three-year efficiency program.
Focus Area: Climate Change
Oct 17, 2024
What Hurricanes Helene and Milton Reveal About Storm Inequity
People are still digging out in Florida and North Carolina after two powerful hurricanes, Helene and Milton, hit this month. Neighborhoods were flooded, trees and power lines were toppled, and rising rivers even swept away some homes. The devastation was so striking it would be easy to imagine everyone felt it equally. But the fact… Continue reading What Hurricanes Helene and Milton Reveal About Storm Inequity
Oct 17, 2024
Maine Climate Council Releases Draft Climate Action Plan
We call on the Climate Council to outline actionable steps for slashing carbon pollution and to grapple with the toughest sources of emissions.
Oct 17, 2024
Massachusetts Lawmakers Reach Climate Bill Compromise
Massachusetts lawmakers announced they reached a compromise on a climate bill after being unable to come to an agreement before the end of the formal legislative session earlier this year.
Oct 16, 2024
FAQs: How to Plant, Protect, and Promote Trees in Your Neighborhood
Follow our tips to nurture a strong, thriving tree canopy.
Oct 16, 2024
A Climate Activist Reflects on Hurricane Helene’s Most Powerful Lesson
I thought I had found a climate haven for me and my family. After Helene, I realized that there is no haven for any of us.
Oct 15, 2024
Rhode Island Energy is Falling Behind on Preparing for the Next Big Storm
Utility companies should be investing in preparing electrical infrastructure to withstand the extreme weather that climate change is bringing us.
Oct 10, 2024
There is No Safe Haven from Climate Change
There is no haven from climate change. Like a B-movie horror film, we might run from the boogieman to locales we think are safe, but the scale and magnitude of climate change are so great that, sooner or later, the boogieman will get us.
Our only recourse now is to take our heads out of the sand and work to do something about it.
Oct 09, 2024
CLF Fights Springfield Biomass Plant’s Outdated ‘Franken-Permit’
Conservation Law Foundation argued Wednesday on behalf of Springfield’s City Council and community before the Massachusetts Court of Appeals to block Palmer Renewable Energy’s desperate attempt to revive its biomass plant using permits that expired over a decade ago.
Oct 07, 2024
Roots of Resilience
An increasingly accepted principle in city halls and state houses is that communities can become more resilient to extreme weather by leaning into nature.
