Miriam Wasser

After of a winter of exceptionally high natural gas and electricity prices, many New Englanders are asking whether a new natural gas pipeline is the solution.

Sens. Warren and Markey led the state's congressional delegation in sending a letter to ICE officials. They say they're "alarmed" by reports of inhumane and unsanitary conditions at the Burlington office and asked for a briefing by immigration enforcement chiefs.

At peak hours during this week's heat wave, solar panels on homes, businesses, parking lots and alongside roads are helping relieve stress on the electric grid.

Kary Diaz Martinez is one of the thousands of immigrants nationwide taken into federal custody in recent weeks amid a surge in immigration enforcement activity. Some of them, like Diaz Martinez, were arrested outside of scheduled immigration hearings about remaining in the country lawfully.

For some women, the conditions have been particularly grim. In one case, a woman who had her period was denied access to menstrual products. When she needed to clean up, a guard allegedly gave her an extra bottle of water.

ICE is detaining immigrants in a Burlington office park building that wasn't designed as a holding facility. Lawyers say conditions there are "abysmal" and "unsanitary."

The Trump administration want to cut the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Advocates in the Northeast warn the results would be dangerous to residents, if not deadly.

Uncertainty lingers for many federally-funded climate, energy and environment projects in Massachusetts, as President Trump works to unwind some of the signature initiatives of the Biden era.

An executive order President Trump issued on his first day in office pauses all new offshore wind leases and permits. But it doesn't stop projects that are fully permitted, as many in New England are.

As the reality of a second Trump administration sank in, climate and environmental leaders described feeling anxiety, but pledged to keep up their efforts to combat climate change and protect the environment.