Climate Change Archives

Oct 29, 2024

First Offshore Wind Lease Sale Held for Gulf of Maine

The Gulf of Maine lease sale is a pivotal step in our clean energy transition and for the region to significantly reduce climate-damaging emissions.

Oct 24, 2024

3 Terrifying Truths About the MBTA

Boston’s MBTA is crumbling, underfunded, and unreliable, leaving riders stranded and disconnected. These three terrifying truths reveal the haunting reality of our aging transit system, calling for urgent action to secure funding and prevent further collapse.

An MBTA rider is wearing a Halloween costume of the orange line on fire. The costume plays on the idea that riding the MBTA is terrifying.

Oct 18, 2024

MassDEP Delays Rule to Curb Dirty Emissions from Trucks

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection delayed implementing a rule that will curb dirty tailpipe emissions from polluting trucks.

An exhaust pipe is shown spewing out black smoke

Oct 18, 2024

Seeing Wind Turbines In Person Made Our Clean Energy Future That Much More Real

I recently toured the South Fork Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island – and it affirmed that we can and are producing clean energy right now.

CLF's Nick Krakoff in front of one of South Fork's wind turbines. The sky is bright blue and cloudy. Nick is wearing an army green pull over sweater and smiling at the camera.

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.

A small toy house wrapped in a scarf sits on a radiator against a blue wall. The house has a gray roof with four windows and a small red door.

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