Chemical manufacturing giant 3M has agreed pay up to $10.3 billion over 13 years to help municipalities test for and clean up toxic PFAS chemicals in public water supplies.The settlement comes after hundreds of claimants — including Massachusetts —...
Massachusetts recently established a “green bank” to help finance new climate-friendly affordable housing and retrofit existing buildings so that they’re more energy efficient and fossil fuel-free.Officially known as the Massachusetts Community Climate Bank, Gov. Maura Healey said the green...
Massachusetts moved up one rank, into fourth place nationally, when it comes to EV policy, according to a report by an industry research nonprofit. The state ranked highly on policies providing incentives to buy electric vehicles and install EV...
Updated at 11:33 a.m. July 11SeparatorIn the underbelly of the country's largest fieldstone basement, Paul Wright stooped low, dodging cobwebs to arrive at a relative humidity monitor — a small, thermostat-like device — perched on a wooden shelf. As...
A judge this week denied the Environmental Protection Agency's motion to dismiss a suit that aims to hold the EPA accountable for implementing stormwater runoff protections in the Charles, Mystic, and Neponset rivers. (Mary Schwalm/Boston Herald) The EPA has...
New England's largest energy utility, Eversource, has parted ways with the American Gas Association — a powerful industry group that environmentalists say has been instrumental in blocking efforts to address climate change around the country.Eversource spokesman Chris McKinnon told...
Adrián Márquez Hernández, Catharine F. H. Wingle and Raheem S. Sheikh are members of the UMass Chan Summer Undergraduate Research Program Class of 2023. Spending 10 weeks of their summer immersed in biomedical research at UMass Chan Medical School...
Since the invention of the telegraph, humans have been able to communicate across great distances in real-time. Today, we can choose among myriad technologies — radio, telephone, video conference platforms — to connect with colleagues and loved ones in...
