Climate Change

A bill authorizing Massachusetts to borrow up to $300 million to better prepare for the effects of climate change is expected to clear the House.

PEABODY — The Baker-Polito Administration today announced over $5 million in grant funding to 34 cities and towns across the Commonwealth, including two SouthCoast communities, for projects to improve their resilience to climate change through Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program Action Grants...

Use live trees for official Christmas displays when possible

Professor Gregory S. Okin of UCLA blames climate change on our dogs and cats, having a significant impact on greenhouse-gas emissions because of their meat-based pet food and their feces! As a result, if you want to be a good do-be, get rid of your dog and cat...

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, has formed an alliance with three of the nation's nuttiest Progressive Democrat governors in a little foot stomping show of disapproval over President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement...

BOSTON (AP) - The governors of four New England states, including two Republicans, are joining a bipartisan coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. The move comes a day after Republican President Donald Trump announced he is withdrawing the United States from the agreement, a pact involving nearly 200 nations aimed at slowing the warming of the planet...

President Barack Obama says a decision by the U.S. and China to formally join a landmark climate agreement may be seen as ``the moment that we finally decided to save our planet.'' Obama says there was ``no shortage'' of cynics who doubted an agreement would ever be reached...

Three Southcoast communities will benefit from a round of grants awarded by the Baker-Polito administration. New Bedford is receiving $168,750 for a beach nourishment restoration project along sections of West Beach that are vulnerable to erosion...

Attorneys general in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Massachusetts are investigating whether Exxon Mobil deceived the public or shareholders about the effects of climate change, joining similar inquiries into the oil giant launched by New York and California ...

(Associated Press) - A new study concludes that sea levels on Earth are rising at a rate several times faster than they have risen in the past 2,800 years. And scientists say it is clear that man-made climate change's rising temperatures are to blame...