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Massachusetts has become the 14th state to ban novelty lighters, although there is little hard data to indicate children are using them to start fires. [Boston Globe]
Believe it or not, tobacco companies continue their increased marketing efforts in low-income neighborhoods. [Boston Globe]
Some trees have begun to turn colors ahead of the usual fall foliage season. [Foster's Daily Democrat]
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Mystic River is more muddy than mystic, receiving a "D" grade from the EPA at the Mystic Watershed Summit. [Somerville News]
This week, the Civil Society Institute released survey results that showed 82 percent of people in Massachusetts approved of Cape Wind, which would install wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. The news came out just as Cape Wind supporters were pushing for US Rep Ed "Biz" Markey to publicly back the project. {They are not lobbying Senator Ted Kennedy, who, in a fit of NIMBYism, has opposed the project from the get-go because Nantucket Sound is his backyard.)
--Logan Airport is getting wind turbines. And we look to opponents of Cape Wind to ask, "So, what's your issue with wind power again?" [Boston Globe]
Massachusetts is the hot battlefield for wind energy. What happens here will no doubt impact how seriously wind is taken as an alternative energy source in the rest of the United States. And, last week, a lot happened regarding wind energy that didn't have anything to do with Cape Wind.
Update: Greenpeace sent out a statement regarding Cape Wind. Greenpeace approves, with a caveat: "While the review is positive, it does point out that Cape Wind needs to minimize the impacts to avian species. We, along with others alarmed by the climate crisis, look forward to participating in the public feedback process of this review and doing all we can to bring this important global warming solution to Massachusetts."
Despite the efforts of those who don't want wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, the Cape Wind project keeps coming back like a pissed-off zombie. Opponents may try to kill it, but Cape Wind springs back to life with continued vigor. Cape Wind opponents might want to bar the door this time because the AP has reported that contributions to the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound have dropped. The Alliance raised $2 million in 2006--a hefty...
Today, House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi presented a major renewable energy bill today that will be debated next week. Right after DiMasi's announcement and also in the State House, authors Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb gave a presentation to legislators about a specific way to achieve that goal--investment in wind energy.
Christy Mihos - former wild-card candidate for governor, best known for running an animated ad showing Big Dig officials sticking their own heads up their butts – is co-chair of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the group that vociferously opposes Cape Wind. Recently, it looked like Mihos was stepping up to the plate with an actual alternative to the original Cape Wind plan, which would put turbines in Nantucket Sound. He volunteered the sites...
Yesterday Massachusetts and Texas were recipient of a whole heap of grant money to test new wind turbines. This isn't part of Cape Wind at all, the grant provides funding for massive wind power blades to be tested in East Boston in Charlestown, not in Nantucket Sound. The Cape Wind project has created a bunch of flap from aristocrats griping about the potential for an oceanic wind farm to obstruct their view, this $2 million...
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