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October 24, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

BOSTON FIDDLES WHILE THE WORLD BURNS

City government continues issuing reports while UN calls for immediate action

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, carbon dioxide, chelsea, Climate Change, coal, Columbia Gas, Column, East Boston, ecology, economy, electricity, Environment, Eversource Energy, fossil fuel, global warming, greenhouse gas, GreenRoots, IPCC, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, National Grid, natural gas, news, NiSource, oil, politics, regulation, united nations, utility

July 12, 2018 By COLE ROSENGREN

LIVING ON SCRAPS

Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?

Filed Under: Environment, Features Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, Somerville, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

June 13, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

‘WALK THE TALK’

Mayor Walsh needs to act faster to mitigate regional global warming threats

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: 350Mass, Activism, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Boston Clean Energy Coalition, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, coal, Column, Community Choice Energy, crisis, disaster, economy, emissions, energy, Environment, flooding, fossil fuel, future, gas, global warming, government, heat wave, Jason Pramas, Mass Sierra Club, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, news, oil, planning, politics, Real Estate, sea level rise

March 13, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

TERROR AT 50 FEET

  Acrimony over Seaport gondola plan speaks to need for expanded MBTA service   March 13, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Much ink has been spilled in the Boston press over a plan by luxury developer Millennium Partners and its subsidiary Cargo Ventures to spend $100 million to build an aerial gondola system from […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Cargo Ventures, Column, Councilor Michael Flaherty, criticism, economy, Flynn Marine Park, gondola, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, MBTA, Millennium Partners, news, politics, Rep Nick Collins, Rep Stephen Lynch, transportation

December 12, 2017 By JASON PRAMAS

TOWNIE: CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES

  December 12, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Big local corps quiet about huge profits to come from Repub tax scheme… except GE An interesting WBUR article, “Largest Mass. Companies Are Mostly Silent On GOP Tax Plans,” asked the top 12 corporations in the Commonwealth to comment on the recently passed Republican scheme to […]

Filed Under: Columns, Townie Tagged With: affordable, boondoggle, Boston, BPDA, BRA, Column, corruption, Democrats, developers, economics, housing, Jason Pramas, malfeasance, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, politics, Republicans, ripoff, taxes, TOWNIE, unaffordable

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