Miriam Wasser
Energy and Climate Reporter at WBUR-FM (Boston, MA)
Energy and climate reporter for @WBUR, Boston's NPR news station Email: [email protected] | she/her
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1 week ago |
wbur.org | Miriam Wasser
Massachusetts officials are overhauling a natural gas program they blame for driving up customers' bills and encouraging utilities to make unnecessarily costly repairs. The program, known as the Gas System Enhancement Plan, or GSEP, gives gas companies a financial incentive to replace leaky natural gas pipelines. But state officials claim it "lack[s] any meaningful incentive for cost containment," and has resulted in overcharging ratepayers for work that could have been completed at a lower cost.
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3 weeks ago |
nhpr.org | Jennette Barnes |Ben Berke |Miriam Wasser
Since taking office in January, President Trump has worked to fulfill a campaign promise to shut down the young offshore wind industry in the U.S. He stopped all federal permitting, and this week, his administration issued a stop-work order to a project under construction off the coast of New York. These actions have sent a chill through the industry, and several wind developers have delayed or paused their work indefinitely.
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3 weeks ago |
wbur.org | Jennette Barnes |Ben Berke |Miriam Wasser
Since taking office in January, President Trump has worked to fulfill a campaign promise to shut down the young offshore wind industry in the U.S. He stopped all federal permitting, and this week, his administration issued a stop-work order to a project under construction off the coast of New York. In New England, which has some of the best conditions in the world for offshore wind, two large projects are under construction.
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1 month ago |
wgbh.org | Miriam Wasser
New London, Conn., is an old New England port city that had its heyday about 200 years ago, in a very different economy. “Ever since the whaling industry, it’s been downhill for the city of New London,” jokes Mayor Michael Passero. “We went from the richest city in Connecticut to one of the poorest.”Passero, a Democrat who has been mayor since 2015, grew up in New London. He says people have always talked about the city as full of potential, always on the cusp of something big.
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1 month ago |
wbur.org | Miriam Wasser
As President Trump has worked to dismantle many federal climate policies and initiatives, Massachusetts environmentalists have taken solace in the fact that states and municipalities have the power to set their own energy and environmental policies. But this week, that premise was called into question. On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive action taking direct aim at state and local efforts to address climate change and environmental justice, and regulate planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
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