News
Read up on the current environmental and political news. Find the lastest press releases and links to news about MLEV.
01.30.12: Come Join Us!
MLEV Fundraiser January 31 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM @ Episcopal Diocese of MA (138 Tremont Street, Side Entrance)
01.23.12: GOP Played Keystone Card, Lost
If you missed the press conference after the State Department announcement that the Keystone XL pipeline had been canceled, you missed a heck of a show...
01.16.12: Cape Wind unlikely done by mid-2015
The long-planned Cape Wind offshore wind project is unlikely to be producing electricity by mid-2015, New England's power grid manager says in a new report that raises the prospect of more delays in a project beset by them.
01.06.12: CITING ROMNEY’S CLIMATE DENIAL, BOSTON GLOBE ENDORSES HUNTSMAN
Boston Globe, one of the most influential papers for the New Hampshire primary, has endorsed Jon Huntsman over home-state Mitt Romney, in large part because of Romney’s climate denial...
12.15.11: Cap and Trade Gives Massachusetts Economy Critical Boost, Creating 3,800 Jobs Since 2008
Report on a ten-state initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions shows the program is a success after three years.
11.28.11: Why We Don't Need to Choose Between the Environment and the Economy
Many see the economy and environment as opposing forces, here is why that viewpoint belongs to the 20th century and not the 21st.
11.22.11: Winter Farmers' Markets
MLEV can't wait to play in the snow and spending all that time throwing snowballs and enjoying MA's great outdoors, we'll definitely work up an appetite. Here is a list of MA winter farmers' markets that will satisfy even the hungriest abominable snow creature!
11.21.11: A Bad Month for Climate-Change Skeptics
The U.S. debate on global warming remains fancifully divorced from the scientific discussion. President Obama hardly ever mentions climate change. Republicans’ behavior is much more embarrassing: GOP presidential candidates often dismiss the warnings of experts in favor of conspiracy-drenched denial. The debate should no longer be about whether the world is warming or whether there is reason to act. It must be about how to respond.
11.14.11: MIT Finds a New Cleaning Solution
Water charged with electricity on site replaces chemicals at conference center [subscription needed].
11.07.11: Many Americans Left Behind in the Quest for Cleaner Air
Americans might expect the government to protect them from unsafe air. That hasn't happened. Insidious forms of toxic air pollution -- deemed so harmful to human health that a Democratic Congress and a Republican president sought to bring emissions under control more than two decades ago -- persist in hundreds of communities across the United States, an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News and NPR shows.