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A handful of Franklin County towns are voicing their opposition to state subsidies and incentives for biomass plants with resolutions that seek to protect the health of the environment and residents. Most recently, Montague voters approved “A...

May 27, 2021 SMILING DOLL HEADS. Mismatched buttons. Thimbles and beads, barnacles and bottle caps. If you crossed a junk drawer with an art museum, the result might be the Office of Collecting and Design. Don’t be fooled by the official-sounding name. Tucked in a quiet corner of Commercial Center, the Office of Collecting and Design is the project of Jessica Oreck, an artist, filmmaker, and animator — and an avid, globe-trotting collector of unusual odds and ends. The OCD (the acronym is c...

(Image credit – Adam Schultz / The White House) Four months into his administration, President Biden’s approach to climate change is beginning to cohere around two executive orders he issued his first week in office.  Signed on Inauguration Day, the first order set an urgent tone through high-priority moves, such as rejoining the Paris climate agreement, initiating an update of government benchmarks for the social cost of greenhouse gases, and reversing a number of Trump administration ac...

Funding Builds on Efforts to Enhance Climate Change Resilience as President Biden Visits FEMA Ahead of Hurricane Season Today, President Biden will meet with members of his homeland security and climate teams at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Response Coordination Center in Washington, D.C. to receive an update on preparations for the 2021 hurricane season. In advance of the President’s visit, the Administration is announcing it will direct $1 billion for communit...

The White House Funding Builds on Efforts to Enhance Climate Change Resilience as President Biden Visits FEMA Ahead of Hurricane Season Today, President Biden will meet with members of his homeland security and climate teams at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Response Coordination Center in Washington, D.C. to receive an update on preparations for the 2021 hurricane season. In advance of the President’s visit, the Administration is announcing it will direct $1 bill...

Biden Wants To Take On The Fossil-Fuel Industry. Dozens Of His Officials Are Invested In It Share to Facebook Share to Linkedin President Joe Biden speaks during a climate change virtual summit from the East Room of the White House on April 22, 2021, in Washington, D.C. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Climate envoy John Kerry, policy advisor Susan Rice and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen all arrived in Washington with oil-and-gas interests in their portfolios. This story is a collabora...

U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM), New Mexico’s only Republican in Congress, continued in the charge against energy policies enacted by President Joe Biden’s administration which Herrell said threatened her home state more than most in the U.S. Herrell joined a forum held Friday by Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources which pointed to purported negative impacts of Biden’s policies on state economies and America’s oil and gas industry. Upon taking office, Bid...

Published: 4 May 2021, 15:41 By: Senior reporter The Crimson Solar Project in southern California could have the capacity to power 87,500 homes. Image: DOI/Tom Brewster. The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has given the green light to the construction of a utility-scale solar-plus-storage project on public land in California. The DOI announced on Monday (3 May) that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given final approval to the Crimson Solar Project, a 350MW solar PV array...

US DOI approves plans for Californian 700MW solar-plus-storage project Email The Crimson Solar project is expected to be able to power 87,500 homes on completion. Image: DOI/Tom Brewster. The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has announced that the development of a 700MW capacity solar-plus-storage project on Californian federal land has been approved. The DOI said on Monday (3 May) that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given final approval to the Crimson Solar Proje...