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ExxonMobil must face AG Healey’s climate lawsuit, Massachusetts supreme court rules
Massachusetts’ high court on Tuesday struck down ExxonMobil’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Attorney General Maura Healey, alleging that the company knew its products were contributing to dangerous changes in the climate yet hid that information from Massachusetts consumers and investors.
Stormy repeat: NOAA predicts busy Atlantic hurricane season
Federal meteorologists are forecasting a record-shattering seventh straight unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season.
In Porter Square, a fight rages for the future of Cambridge streets
An ambitious plan to add protected bike lanes around the city has spurred a raucous public spat between businesses, city officials, and transit advocates.
UN chief urges college grads to shun companies funding fossil fuels
The head of the United Nations implored graduating college students on Tuesday to reject jobs at companies that fund the fossil fuel industry he described as “killing our planet.”
Towns across New England set daily temperature records
It’s not even Memorial Day yet, but it felt like peak summer this past weekend.
Summer is starting earlier. Massachusetts is not prepared.
As New England warms thanks to the climate crisis, summer-like temperatures in May are becoming the new normal — and local institutions and cultural practices are struggling to keep up.
New England climate activists sentenced for anticoal civil disobedience action
Four climate activists have received suspended jail sentences for attempting to stop a train from delivering coal to a power plant in Bow, NH in 2019.
As pollution worsens on Cape Cod, some are investing hopes in a new type of septic system
A coalition of groups in Cape Cod is pressing local and state officials to consider installing a new kind of septic system that they say would curb the vast majority of nitrogen that leaks from traditional systems.