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 |
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 week 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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1 month ago |
wbur.org | Miriam Wasser
A Nantucket-based group opposed to offshore wind is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider key permits it issued last summer for two proposed wind farms off the coast of Massachusetts. New England Wind 1 and New England Wind 2 were fully permitted under the Biden administration, but wind advocates worry that if the EPA decides to take up this new challenge, it could create an opening for the Trump administration to stop other fully permitted projects as well.
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1 month ago |
wbur.org | Miriam Wasser
Following public outcry over high energy costs this winter, Gov. Maura Healey announced a new statewide “energy affordability agenda” that she said would help lower bills for Massachusetts residents. “People, especially in the last month or two, were absolutely flabbergasted by [the energy bills] they got in the mail,” Healey said Monday at an event in Lowell.
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1 month ago |
wbur.org | Miriam Wasser
As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission sent letters to a number of public radio stations, including WBUR, asking for information about their on-air sponsorships — known as “underwriting” in the public media world. The letter, which was first reported by Bloomberg News, gave a deadline of March 31. A spokesperson for WBUR confirmed the station has received the letter, but declined to provide a copy or give more details.
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Need a break from all the election coverage? Check out the details (in plain English) of the sweeping climate and clean energy bill lawmakers in Massachusetts have put forward It's currently stalled in the house, but lawmakers say it will pass it in 2024 https://t.co/rkNf8AZXrd
#ICYMI: I talked to a lot of people in the offshore wind world about the upcoming presidential election: -What's at stake -What each candidate might do -And how states and developers are planning to forge ahead should Trump win https://t.co/gqCm6ugOCn
