Sabrina Shankman
Climate Change Reporter at The Boston Globe
Reporting on climate change for the Boston Globe. Mom. Maine-based lover of running, cats and snow. She/her. @[email protected] [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Sabrina Shankman |Hiawatha Bray
Massachusetts is pumping the breaks on its ambitious goals to shift drivers from gas to electric vehicles, the Healey administration announced Friday. The state will delay by two years the enforcement of a a rule that would have required 35 percent of cars sold to be electric and plug-in-hybrid starting with 2026 models. From there, the percentages had been set to increase annually until all vehicles sold in the state are fully electric in 2035.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Sabrina Shankman
It’s springtime in Boston, so the heat is off and the air conditioning isn’t yet fired up. But lest anyone forget, the cost of energy in Massachusetts hit sky-high levels this winter, with households devoting a larger percentage of their paychecks to energy than most places in the country.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Sabrina Shankman
By the end of this decade, Massachusetts needs 900,000 electric vehicles on the road in order to reach its climate mandate, a sixfold increase from today. It was always going to be tough to get there. But now a key tool, a requirement that dealers sell an increasing number of EVs starting this year is under fire from both the federal government and the car industry alike. The stakes are high. More than a third of the state’s planet-warming emissions come from transportation.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Sabrina Shankman
Part of the beauty of running is its simplicity. You need a road, a will to move, and that’s about it. Except when it comes to gathering 40,000 people to run together, in the same place, there’s nothing simple about it. There are shirts and medals for runners, jackets for volunteers, goodie bags upon completion. There is water to be consumed en route and synthetic gels for runners seeking another burst of energy.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Sabrina Shankman
During his first months in office, President Trump’s efforts to roll back climate progress focused primarily on what the federal government controls: pausing offshore wind leases, firing environmental employees, that kind of thing. Now the Trump administration has trained its sights on the states, and theenvironmental policies many have adopted.
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