Results tagged “environmentalprotection”

The Boston City Council wants to follow San Francisco's footsteps and ban plastic bags from the city. Robert Consalvo (Hyde Park / Roslindale / Mattapan) is pushing the measure, and nine of twelve city councilors have offered their support. We're all for protecting the environment, but the way Robert Consalvo describes those bags, you'd think we were being attacked by plastic bags: "They blow in trees, they're floating in Boston Harbor . . . They're...

--Two school buses crashed into each other yesterday afternoon in Allston. It wasn't a fender bender - 22 people were hurt. It was a chain-reaction event started by a pickup truck that hit the brakes, causing the school bus behind it to hit the brakes. Then another school bus rear-ended the first bus, turning students into projectiles. The Globe says that a block bus drivers use to lodge under the wheels somehow got under one...