Stories
For the past eight years, New Bedford has been advocating for offshore wind and preparing their port to service offshore wind projects. But why is the city betting on this industry?
Massachusetts opted last week for one large power line to cover a big chunk of its energy needs for the next 20-plus years.
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Eversource’s Northern Pass transmission line is the sole project picked for long-term energy contract negotiations with Massachusetts.
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Lobster conservation techniques pioneered by Maine fishermen helped drive a population boom that’s led to record landings this century. That’s the conclusion of new, peer-reviewed research published today.
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New England electricity customers could get a direct benefit from a cut in federal corporate taxes — lower utility bills.
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About half of New England’s households are on septic systems. That’s the highest proportion in the country.
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Thirty years ago, four people died from amnesic shellfish poisoning after eating cultured mussels from Canada’s Price Edward Island. The mussels contained domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by a class of algae called pseudo-nitzschia. The toxin turned up in PEI mussels the next year, but for decades after that wasn’t heard from again on the Eastern Seaboard.
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New Hampshire’s Great Bay and the Piscataqua River estuary have been in bad shape for years – and the latest data doesn’t show a lot of improvement.
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One of Connecticut’s most uncommon species of evergreen can still be found — if you know where to look.
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