Department of Environmental Protection

Boston’s effort to build a new bridge to Long Island got a lift Monday with a favorable high court ruling. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection order supersedes the Quincy Conservation Commission’s application denial related to the bridge construction because the commission “did not rest its determination on more stringent local provisions.” “The...

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has issued an air quality alert for several counties in the state on Wednesday. The alert warns of an anticipated increase in ozone levels in eastern and southeastern parts of the commonwealth, officials said Tuesday. The alert is in eastern parts of Essex County, southern Bristol County and Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties from…

After a massive fire destroyed a total of four buildings a week ago in Orange, Massachusetts, some who live in town have been left with debris on their property. Since some of that debris is considered contaminated and may contain asbestos, which is known to cause cancer, town officials issued instructions for residents on how to properly dispose of it....

With the end of the fiscal year in sight, state Rep. Susannah Whipps and her counterpart in the Senate, Sen. Joanne Comerford, are pushing to get state funding for the town.

A small town was left with a pile of asbestos-infused rubble and a roughly $4 million bill to clean it up when an intense blaze destroyed a vacant mill building in Orange, Massachusetts, this weekend. The town was already trying to address the asbestos in the long-abandoned building, but after three kids allegedly set it on fire Saturday, officials are…

A fire at an abandoned mill in Orange, Massachusetts, on Saturday, June 4, 2022, left a huge pile of asbestos-contaminated debris that could cost the town around $4 million to clean up.