green energy

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday visited a Dorchester housing complex slated to make the switch to cleaner energy to highlight it as one anecdote in the “national story” of how the United States is preparing to deal with effects of a changing climate. Gov. Maura Healey, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu...

The U.S. government’s most ambitious plan ever to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles faces skepticism about how realistic it is and whether it goes far enough. The Environmental Protection Agency in April announced new strict emissions limits that it says are vital to slowing climate change. The EPA says the industry could meet the limits if 67%...

The first clean wind power generated by the Vineyard Wind 1 project is expected to flow onto the regional grid by mid-October and the first-in-the-nation offshore wind project should be fully operational by this time next year, project officials said Wednesday during a boat tour of the construction. Project developers have maintained for years that the $4 billion project they…

New Bedford aspires to light the world once again with offshore wind energy many years after exporting whale oil for lamps.

By the year 2050, the Baker administration envisions virtually all of the state’s more than 5 million light-duty vehicles will run on electric power instead of fossil fuels, 80% of Massachusetts homes will be heated and cooled with electric heat pumps, and the statewide electrical infrastructure will be able to handle two and a half times more load than in…

With electric bills expected to increase as we move into winter, the city of Boston is encouraging residents to opt into a program that aims to provide more renewable energy for less money. “Right now for a lot of our neighborhoods energy costs are hurting families,” Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, director of the Energy Department, said. White-Hammond is the head of…

With energy costs soaring, the city of Boston is offering renewable energy alternatives.

A Hydro-Quebec subsidiary is buying a company that operates 13 hydropower generating stations in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, strengthening its relationship with New England. The $2 billion purchase of Great River Hydro LLC and the dams that produce 589 megawatts of electricity will provide Hydro-Quebec with the largest hydropower operation in New England, officials said Wednesday. Hydro-Quebec has a…

The day of decisions has arrived. As Massachusetts’ senators and representatives prepare Sunday for the final formal session of the year as allowed by their joint rules, all eyes are on the five conference committees still negotiating significant policy topics that the House and Senate each have passed legislation to address: economic development, cannabis industry reforms, sports betting, mental health…

As nearly a third of the U.S. faces heat advisories, President Joe Biden spoke from Massachusetts on Wednesday to pledge executive action to combat the climate crisis. However, he stopped short of declaring a federal emergency on climate.

It’s a one-of-a-kind twist on a high-school summer job that’s kind to the climate. Two twin brothers in Maine have fully booked out the calendar for their lawn care business, which uses 100% electric equipment charged with solar energy. “We’d actually never mowed our own lawn,” said Dimitri Coupe during a Tuesday interview with NECN and NBC10 Boston, explaining...

Two twin brothers in Maine founded Solar Mow, a lawncare business that uses electric equipment powered by solar energy.

Researchers have been working for years to move away from fossil fuels and instead use more renewable energy but they’ve run into one major issue when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. The MIT Energy Initiative proposed the future of energy storage in Washington on Monday,

Power plants that currently burn fossil fuels could actually become part of the green power grid by storing renewable energy, according to a new report released Monday by MIT researchers. Prepared over three years, the MIT Energy Initiative’s “The Future of Energy Storage” report aims to provide a road map for governments to take fossil fuels out of their...