The impacts of climate change and environmental concerns are shared across our region, but when it comes to addressing those issues, the New England states can have strikingly different policies. We tell stories on these topics every day and work together on special series.
In the summer of 2023, we looked at the impacts of extreme weather in our series Beyond Normal. And each year around Earth Day, we present a series of regional climate change stories with a different theme. For our 2024 series, we looked at how climate change is impacting our homes.
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The Health Incentives Program (HIP) now only offers $20 per family, compared to $40-to-$80 previously. Farmers and advocates say, without restored funding, they will have to reduce winter market options. -
A spending bill passed by Congress late last year provides $220 million to eight states including all of New England. And the survey will help to determine just how much Massachusetts will see. -
Sometimes, weather is just weather. And other times human-caused climate change had an obvious impact. -
Wind developers Avangrid and Ocean Winds are scheduled to sign contracts with utilities Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil next Wednesday. Their wind farms, New England Wind 1 and SouthCoast Wind, have been approved by the Biden administration. -
The Vermont Department of Health recently released data from the state's first registry for the disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS. Some reports have linked cyanobacteria algae blooms in lake and ponds to the disease, but some health officials caution against those studies. -
New York City implemented congestion pricing Sunday in an effort to reduce pollution, traffic and fund mass transit. In Fairfield County, reactions are mixed. -
The birds were rehabbed for about a month and returned by New England Wildlife Center. -
Like many coastal communities, Provincetown is searching for ways to help property owners prevent devastating flooding from more frequent and more intense storms — a major consequence of climate change. -
Residential, "behind-the-meter" solar, like panels found on rooftops, commercial buildings, and in parking lots, helped keep energy demand low during the day in spring and summer. -
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Petroleum Institute have sued Vermont over a landmark climate law that seeks damages for climate change from big oil companies, and is modeled after the federal Superfund program.
