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Wu unveils new programs to reduce carbon emissions
As part of Boston’s effort to reduce its carbon emissions, Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday launched new initiatives to increase residents’ energy efficiency and reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
Study uncovers clues to rise in uterine cancer death rates
A rare but aggressive kind of uterine cancer appears to be driving an increase in US deaths from the disease, particularly among Black women, researchers reported Thursday.
To curb the climate crisis, transforming forestry is key, UN says
Protecting forests — including those in New England — will be crucial to achieving a livable future, a major new UN report says.
Theoharides announces new position in the offshore wind industry
Former Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Kathleen Theoharides, who announced her resignation last week, will take a new position with a renewable energy developer.
Justice Department boosts focus on environmental cases that harm the poor
The Justice Department is ramping up enforcement of environmental cases that officials say disproportionately harm poor and marginalized communities, creating an office to help coordinate investigations and expanding the breadth of litigation against companies and local or state governments that appear to violate federal laws or commit civil infractions.
Even at the top of Mt. Washington, the warming of the world can be detected
“Summit annual temperatures are now increasing at a statistically significant rate,” researchers said.
McGovern calls on Biden to pardon embattled attorney Steven Donziger
A group of lawmakers is urging President Biden to pardon Steven Donziger, the embattled human rights lawyer who won a groundbreaking multibillion-dollar case against Chevron over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.
Climate change turned up India’s heat. But by how much?
India this year experienced its hottest March in 12 decades of records, and one of its driest. Next came the third-hottest April, after 2010 and 2016. Then it got even hotter.