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A Springfield scrap metal company has agreed to pay $165,000 to settle allegations it improperly discharged industrial storm water.
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Longtime environmental advocate Thelma Barzottini was remembered recently by Housatonic River cleanup activists and government regulators as a sweet person who was passionate about cleaning up PCBs.
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The Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority — a trash-to-energy collaborative in Hartford — will close in the coming months.
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If Hartford exits MIRA, people in surrounding towns could soon be paying more to get rid of their trash.
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Almost the entire class of PFAS chemicals — of which there are thousands — will be added to the state's list of "Toxic or Hazardous Substances."
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There's been another major setback for Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's climate and energy plans.Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont said he's done…
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The Massachusetts effort to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 has suffered a big setback. Last week, Gov. Baker took the state out of the Transportation Climate Initiative, a multi-state initiative to cut carbon emissions in the transportation sector.
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After years of touting a multi-state compact to reduce transportation sector carbon emissions as “critical” to achieving environmental goals in…
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In 2018, the state adopted a bill to prevent childhood lead poisoning from water and paint that requires schools and child care facilities to test their drinking water in five-year periods.
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The town of Vernon is considering a plan to reuse the site of the former Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, even as the state of Texas fights a proposal by the federal government to build a new facility that would store nuclear waste from Vermont.