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Wicked Local Massachusetts is the most Irish state in the country, and the South Shore is the most Irish area in the country, said Brenda O’Connor, a member of the Scituate/West Cork Sister City Committee and a resident of Scituate, long believed to be the most Irish town in the country. “If anyone needs an Irish Heritage Trail it is us, and that is what we’re trying to do,” she said during a virtual meeting with members of the Sister City Committee and the South Shore Irish Heritage Trail Committee. The focus of the meeting was to initiate a conversation about bringing an Irish Heritage Trail to the South Shore, something that has been in discussion for some time. ....
Special to the Transcript Rep. RoseLee Vincent and Senator Joseph Boncore joined with their colleagues in the Massachusetts Legislature this week in passing breakthrough climate legislation that overhauls the state’s climate laws, drives down greenhouse gas emissions, creates clean energy jobs, and protects environmental justice communities. The bill, An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy (S.2995), sets a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions limit, as well as statewide limits every five years; increases the requirements for offshore wind energy procurement bringing the statewide total to 5,600 megawatts; requires emission reduction goals for MassSave, the state’s energy efficiency program; and, for the first time, establishes the criteria in statute that define environmental justice populations. The legislation also increases support for clean energy workforce development programs including those targeting low-income communities a ....
In Weymouth, a brute lesson in power politics A Globe investigation finds residents who fought a six-year battle with an energy giant over a controversial gas compressor never had much of a chance, with both the federal and state governments consistently ruling against them By Mike Stanton Boston Globe Spotlight Fellow,Updated December 12, 2020, 1:58 p.m. Email to a Friend As the new gas pipeline compressor station (in background) is set to start operating this week, citizen activist Alice Arena places an elf on a tree in Kings Cove Park in Weymouth.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff WEYMOUTH â Alice Arena was sitting at the kitchen table in her Colonial home at the end of September, composing yet another e-mail to government regulators, when her phone erupted with a flurry of calls and texts. ....