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Williamstown is creating a climate action plan and taking steps to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions with a goal of net zero emissions by 2050.

Bideford College played host to a prize giving ceremony last week that marked the culmination of a competition that asked pupils to develop positive...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board last week heard about two initiatives looking to make change on a regional and global scale and one proposal that would shake up the way the town taxes...

A solar array to be developed by Encore Renewable Energy in Derry, New Hampshire, will be one of the state's largest at 2.2 MW. Encore will finance,

In addition to the energy savings for the town, the solar project will be built with no upfront costs to the community.

New Hampshire continues to lag neighboring states in supporting the growing tide of electric vehicles and the variety of bills before the legislature on the topic – not to mention curious moves around the state like the town of Derry shutting down its...

Be sure to have your say - Credit: DCC Fourteen thousand randomly selected Devon households are being invited to enter a ‘civic lottery’ to determine who represents the county at this summer’s Devon Climate Assembly.  Over the next week invitations will drop through letterboxes giving households the chance to help shape and safeguard Devon’s future.  It follows the recent public consultation of the Interim Devon Carbon Plan, the county’s climate roadmap which outlines what every res...

I imagined that councillors would be better informed than some of the comments suggest. Cllr Ezzard’s very moderate remarks about the absence of anything specific in the budget set aside for climate change actions in the coming year were met with an extraordinary response from Councillor O’Leary: “I do enjoy watching the opposition parties out-greening each other at every meeting ....once again we have the same grandstanding.” Has the jeering Councillor O’Leary not heard that ev...

Tom White, IChemE Trustee and CEO of C-Capture, presses Boris Johnson for support on scaleup The UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced a 10-point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution ( see p10). As C-Capture’s CEO, I was absolutely delighted, and a little surprised, to be invited with less than 24 hours’ notice to participate in an industry roundtable discussion by the Prime Minister’s Business Team. In the run up to the virtual event, with only a few hours to spare, I...