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Massachusetts

As Energy Demand Rises, More States Turn to Virtual Power Plants

The decentralized power systems are playing a growing role in the transition away from fossil fuels.

By Dan Gearino

A worker with Base Power installs a home battery system that can send energy back to the grid during peak times in Houston on Feb. 18, 2025. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images
Plug-in solar panels hang from a balcony in Stralsund, Germany. Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images

New England Lawmakers Weigh Plug-in Solar as Europe’s Model Spreads

By Ryan Krugman

Cold-stunned sea turtles arrive at New England Aquarium’s hospital and are evaluated for infections and injuries. Credit: Vanessa Kahn/New England Aquarium

Hundreds of Sea Turtles Are Freezing in Cape Cod

By Teresa Tomassoni

A pipe marked "geothermal" leans on other pipes in a residential neighborhood

Rare Win for Renewable Energy: Trump Administration Funds Geothermal Network Expansion

By Phil McKenna

A nor’easter causes large waves to hit a bluff filled with sand to prevent erosion in Nantucket, Mass., on Feb. 13, 2024. Credit: Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Unveils 50-Year Plan to Protect Coastlines from Rising Seas and Extreme Weather

By Ryan Krugman

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey speaks during a press conference at the State House on Nov. 10 in Boston. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

One Key State Remains in Limbo on Climate and Clean Energy Policies As Several Others Retreat

By Dan Gearino

A great blue heron stands at the edge of a restored stream channel in the Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary, which was once a cranberry bog. Credit: Cyndi Jackson/The Living Observatory

Cranberry Farmers Consider Turning Bogs Into Wetlands as Temperatures Rise

By Nicole Williams

Photo of the Counting House during the 2024 Nor'easter. Credit: Paul Wright

Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables

By Ryan Krugman

The Ellington Street Community Food Forest Garden fills a formerly empty lot in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Credit: Dre Tejada

Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy

By Ryan Krugman

A newly laid natural gas main is seen in Andover, Mass. Credit: Gabe Souza/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Massachusetts Seeks to End Ratepayer-Funded Subsidy for New Natural Gas Connections

By Phil McKenna

Then Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 29, 2006, as states argued against the EPA’s inaction on global warming. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?

By Marianne Lavelle

Vehicles move slowly through midtown Manhattan traffic in New York City on June 6, 2024. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals

By Rambo Talabong

Rev. Nathan Ives of the St. Peter’s-San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem, Mass., stands next to an aging gas-fired, steam boiler in the church basement. Credit: Jonathan Wiggs/Boston Globe

Can Solar and Geothermal Energy Help a Church and Its Neighbors Wean Off Fossil Fuels?

By Phil McKenna

Dune restoration has stabilized an area separating Hither Creek from the Atlantic Ocean in Madaket, Nantucket. Credit: Jennifer Karberg/Nantucket Conservation Foundation

How Nantucket Is Preparing for Rising Seas

By Nicole Williams

Students walk through the campus of UMass Boston. Credit: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Universities, States Have ‘Responsibility’ to Act on Climate in Trump Era, UMass President says

By Dennis Pillion

Construction of a geothermal pilot project begins in July 2023 in Framingham, Mass. Credit: Eversource

What You Need to Know About Geothermal Heating and Cooling

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

People walk though MIT’s campus in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

As MIT Aims to Decarbonize, Competing Ideas Focus on Thermal Energy Systems

By Phil McKenna

A pedestrian walks across a flooded street in Honolulu on Dec. 7, 2021, the morning after a powerful tropical storm known as a Kona Low hit the Hawaii islands. Credit: Eugene Tanner/AFP via Getty Images

The Supreme Court Let Lawsuits Against Oil Companies Proceed. This Is What It Means

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

The Texas House and Senate will convene this month at the State Capitol in Austin, with many energy issues on the agenda. Credit: Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images

What to Expect from State Governments on Renewable Energy Policy in 2025

By Dan Gearino

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