Most recent 10 articles: Boston Globe
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Beverly mayor takes leading role against climate change - Boston Globe (Dec 18, 2019) |
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Dec 18, 2019 · Beverly Mayor Michael P. Cahill has agreed to play a leading role in a national organization of city leaders working to combat climate change. Climate Mayors recently selected Cahill to serve on its newly established steering committee, joining 23 other mayors from across the country.
Formed in 2014, Climate Mayors is a network of US mayors who have committed to fighting climate change. The organization's ranks has swelled to more more than 400 mayors following the Trump Administration's decision to withdraw from the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, according to the group.
Participating mayors have pledged to take ambitious actions to meet their cities' current climate ... Read more ...
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Brookline's ban on natural gas connections spurs other municipalities to consider the idea - Boston Globe (Dec 16, 2019) |
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Dec 16, 2019 · When Brookline banned new natural gas hookups last month, many in the business community worried it would be the first of many dominoes to fall.
Well, here they go.
Next in line: Cambridge, and then Newton.
On Wednesday, a Cambridge City Council committee held a hearing on a proposed ordinance that would block natural gas connections in new buildings or major reconstruction projects; a Newton City Council committee discussed advancing a similar measure last week.
And officials in more than a dozen other municipalities, such as Lexington and Arlington, have started to consider bans. All this activity reflects the growing concern that not enough is being done ... Read more ...
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Where is Liberty Mutual in the climate change fight? - Boston Globe (Dec 13, 2019) |
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Dec 13, 2019 · Liberty Mutual has been a Boston institution for over a century and, across that span, like any good insurance company, it's been fixated on risk — in 1946, its employees invented the automatic safety switch that stops elevators from crashing to the ground if something goes wrong. (Thank you, by the way.)
But that focus seems to have slipped in the global warming era. Liberty Mutual recently received the lowest grade of 30 global insurance companies from Insure Our Future, a group of climate change campaigners. It refused even to answer the questionnaire the group sent, and probably for good reason. Among other things:
· Liberty Mutual has devoted almost 10 percent of ... | By Bill McKibben Read more ...
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Energy credits can help fight climate change - Boston Globe (Dec 11, 2019) |
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Dec 11, 2019 · When the Oxford English Dictionary names "climate emergency" as its 2019 Word of the Year, it's clear that we have reached a turning point.
People can see a crisis unfolding with our climate, and they know we need bold action. We have the scientific evidence and we have the technological know-how to address this generational crisis. More than ever before, we have the support of a critical mass of Americans — young and old — who are demanding action. Unfortunately, under a government run by Donald Trump, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, and their fossil fuel allies, what we don't have enough of is the political will to take action. And unless Congress acts within the ... | By Ed Markey and Michael Brune Read more ...
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The 2020 election must be a time of reckoning on climate change - Boston Globe (Dec 09, 2019) |
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Dec 09, 2019 · The world is warming, and without swift and dramatic action, it's about to get a lot worse. That much is devastatingly clear from scientific reports. At this rate, we can expect the next few decades to bring deadlier heat waves, pandemics, rising seas that flood coastal cities, and the disappearance of coral reefs.
It hasn't gone unnoticed. Youth climate movements have surged around the globe. Solutions abound — from putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions to replacing fossil fuel electricity and gas-powered cars with new technologies, to rethinking how we grow food.
What remains lacking, however, is political will and leadership. And even as some European and ... Read more ...
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Climate change and dark money - Boston Globe (Nov 21, 2019) |
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Nov 21, 2019 · The earth is spinning toward climate catastrophe. The international community has about a decade to take the steps necessary to avoid breaching the 1.5 degrees Celsius safety zone that the scientific community has established. It will take American leadership to achieve that goal, which means not only bold action in Congress, but meaningful leadership from the president, our allies around the globe, and leadership from powerful forces like major corporations.
Unfortunately, much of corporate America so far failed to step up and sufficiently support policies that would begin to address the existential threat of climate change. Many individual corporations, perhaps out of ... | By Chuck Schumer and Sheldon Whitehouse Read more ...
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Holding Exxon Mobil accountable - Boston Globe (Nov 20, 2019) |
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Nov 20, 2019 · Damali Vidot is president of the Chelsea City Council, serving residents who are largely blue-collar ethnic minorities. Vidot and other community activists became concerned about the safety of the ExxonMobil facility that sits low on the bank of the Mystic River in nearby Everett. Scientific predictions suggest that even a Category 1 storm could severely damage the facility, causing toxic chemicals to flood residential neighborhoods and the local produce depots that provide food to the entire Northeast. Vidot joined a group of concerned citizens from Everett, Chelsea, and East Boston to demand that ExxonMobil disclose steps it has taken to prepare the facility for such an event, but ... | By Adam Posluns and Katerina Simonova video Read more ...
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A climate change forum gets the cold shoulder from Joe Kennedy - Boston Globe (Nov 13, 2019) |
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Nov 13, 2019 · Why did US Representative Joe Kennedy III skip a forum on climate change?
Call it a smart bet that the race to unseat Senator Edward J. Markey is bigger than the Green New Deal and the young left-leaning activists who embrace it.
Kennedy, 39, was a no-show at a Sunday forum, hosted by Stonehill College, leaving Markey, 73, able to pitch himself as a New Age climate revolutionary . Yet, even without Kennedy, the event was no slam-dunk for the incumbent. Markey faced tough criticism from challenger Shannon Liss-Riordan, who called him out for a lack of legislative progress on environmental issues during his 43 years in Washington. "It's been a long time, there's been a ... | By Joan Vennochi Read more ...
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