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Commentary: Five steps to Maine’s green COVID recovery Aim high; make equity a priority; invest in a modern clean-energy grid; join the regional transportation initiative, and establish an energy storage roadmap. By Peter Rothstein and Fortunat MuellerSpecial to the Press Herald Share It doesn’t take much imagination to draw parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis. Both crises present a global danger to our lives, threaten to disrupt our economy and disproportionately affect low-income communities and communities of color. But the pandemic has also shown that regi...

The bill calls for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, sets interim emission targets, establishes appliance energy efficiency standards, authorizes additional purchases of offshore wind power and adds protections for environmental justice communities.

Sweeping climate policy legislation is back on Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk two weeks after he rejected a previous iteration of the same bill.

How Twin Cities theaters are connecting with audiences online Check out these digital productions and interactive experiences.  January 8, 2021 — 1:21pm Text size Copy shortlink: When theater companies scheduled shows for spring 2021, it seemed like a worst-case scenario that they would be shuttered for up to a year due to the pandemic. But here we are, with those productions postponed again until it's safe to gather in theaters. The good news is that many companies are finding ways to connect with audiences outside of their arti...

By State House News Service The rest of the 2020s need to be "the decade for action" on climate change and energy policy if Massachusetts is to meet its mid-century greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, and that will require sweeping changes in the ways that people in Massachusetts heat their homes, get to work and around town, and generate electricity, the Baker administration said Wednesday. The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs released its 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap and draft 2030 Clean Energy and Climate Plan on Wednesday to put some meat on the bo...