Nancy Eve Cohen
Senior ReporterNancy Eve Cohen is a senior reporter focusing on Berkshire County. Previously she served as the editor of the Northeast Environmental Hub, a collaborative of more than a dozen public radio stations.
Earlier in her career she was the Midwest editor for NPR in Washington, D.C.
Before working in radio, she produced environmental television documentaries.
As part of a camera crew, Nancy also recorded sound for network television news, with assignments in Russia, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba and in Sarajevo during the war in 1992.
She can be reached at nancy_cohen [at] nepm.org.
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Massachusetts issues climate forestry report, ends tree-cutting 'pause.' Loggers want work to begin.The report is designed to help Massachusetts meet a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit of net zero by 2050.
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Peter Marchetti said at his inauguration, Tuesday, he was "honored to be Pittsfield's first openly gay mayor" and that he promised "to be a mayor for everyone."
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Descendants of the survivors of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre disagree over what should happen to items returned to the Oglala Sioux tribe by a Barre, Massachusetts, museum last year. Tribal members believe the moccasins, pipes and pouches were taken off the bodies of those killed by the U.S. cavalry.
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Public water systems in Massachusetts are making inventories of water service lines to identify any made of lead. A revised lead and copper rule, set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, requires the inventories are completed by mid-October 2024.
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"Remedy Hall" in Williamstown, Massachusetts, gives a way items that other service groups don't, such as toothpaste, towels and crock pots.
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Jacob "Jake" Galliher was among eight service members who died last month when an Osprey aircraft crashed during a training mission off southwestern Japan. The crash led the U.S. military to ground its fleet of Ospreys while the investigation into the accident continues.
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New regulations for NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, are expected to go into effect next year. They are designed to clarify how museums and tribes work together to return items and human remains to Native communities.
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At a meeting held in Lee, Massachusetts, this week, General Electric presented its plan to use trucks and hydraulic pumps to move toxic waste out of the Housatonic River. Many in the town want the waste to be moved via rail and brought to an out of state licensed facility. The EPA's cleanup plan includes a toxic waste disposal facility to be constructed in Lee.
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The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is repatriating the remains of two Native people, believed to be an adult and an adolescent, to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.
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The play, "Unreconciled," opens in Easthampton, Massachusetts this week. It tells the story of a clergy abuse survivor who rejects a settlement from the church. Written by two survivors of abuse, it tells the story from multiple perspectives, including the perpetrator.