Thurs afternoon... Gov Healey said she is advancing legislation to end the centuries-old ban on hunting in Mass...also proposing to allow crossbows for all hunters, as well as reducing setback limits for bow hunting from 500' to 250'. 0 days of peace for the rest of us www.wwlp.com/news/massach...

Sad/mad to see the hunters in the MA Division of Fish & Game will be advancing Sunday hunting leaving ZERO days for peaceful walking in the woods or fields or anywhere in my town. #NoSunday#NoPeace

AGT Enhancment/RARE Expansion ecori.org/climate-acti... More climate chaos from @enbridge.com Open house dates released - April 22, 27-30: www.enbridge.com/projects-and... @climateactionri.org @nofrackedgasinmass.bsky.social @sierraclubma.bsky.social @sierraclubct.bsky.social

Deal with the devil. Reneged. Imagine. “We sure didn’t see this broadside attack coming,” Hochul said. #ConstitutionPipeline #NESE #NED #AccessNortheast www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Winter Solstice sunrise over the Boston skyline (from Mt. Watatic).

“We appreciate this 10yr proposal. MA & NE need more energy supply for reliability and to lower energy bills...we are committed to an all-of-the above approach to energy resources & gas continues to play an important role in our overall energy supply”~Healey WTAF www.bostonherald.com/2025/09/03/g...

“Right now, we have to do everything we possibly can, and even more than we think we can do, at the municipal and state levels to move swiftly and rapidly to a just energy transition,” Theberge said. Stop Eversource, Enbridge, Tennessee, Williams, stop 'em all. www.recorder.com/With-EPA-res...

@eversourcema.bsky.social moving ahead with expanding their polluting fracked gas project through EJ communities in the City of Springfield. Good for their greedy selves & shareholders (ROE on $65M+), bad for everyone & everything else on the planet. #EndFossilFuels @nofrackedgasinmass.bsky.social

-eliminates funding for climate and pollution control; -sacrifices land for dirty energy profiteering; -and sticks it to the clean-energy do-gooders and poor communities most ill-equipped to deal with the onslaught of extractive industries and polluting facilities. www.pfpi.net/2025/06/one-...

"Williams also will restart regulatory filings for work on the 124-mile, 30-in.-dia. Constitution gas line from northeastern PA through N.Y. ... It would connect to two other pipelines —Iroquois and TGP— to move Marcellus gas from PA into NY state and New England." www.enr.com/articles/608...

Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark said the state doesn't have to change anything it's currently doing. "This is an executive order, like many, in that it actually doesn't do anything .... But it actually doesn't have any teeth." #PeopleOverPipelines #NoKing www.mynbc5.com/article/verm...

Anne Marie Garti, a lawyer who represented landowners threatened by eminent domain in the first fight over Constitution, is back at the lead of the fight. “We’re going to be ready for them,” she says. #PeopleOverPipelines #noeminentdomainforprivategain www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

Over 200 organizations urge the Governors of nine States to unite against the expansion of gas pipelines in the Northeast - full letter: tinyurl.com/LtrNEGovs #handsoff #peopleoverpipelines #noeminentdomainforprivategain @shankman.bsky.social @miriamwasser.bsky.social @gbhnews.bsky.social

Editorials calling for revival of failed Access Northeast gas pipeline expansion. "[Healey] could do the same legislatively in reviving the 20-mile Spectra Energy plan to increase natural gas supplies." bcuz "Back in 2015, Gov. Charlie Baker backed" Yeah, NO. www.lowellsun.com/2025/03/30/g...

Dorie Seavey debunks gas industry scapegoating. "For Boston Gas, 90% of the bill increase from last Oct to now is explained by higher gas supply and delivery charges; for Eversource Gas, 87%; and for NSTAR, 69%. Mass Save is certainly a minor player..." www.linkedin.com/pulse/mass-s...

Biden's Treasury & IRS released the long awaited "clean hydrogen" Rule today embracing the 3 pillars of new, local, and timely. Has an opening for RNG and fugitive emissions. The Rule is open for comments for 60 days from 12/26. Rule linked in the press release: home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

Only the gas industry wants hydrogen for building heating. Will politicians have the will to say No? "Domestic heating was demoted to the 'row of doom' ... as was mid-to-low industrial heat, due to technological advancements in high-temperature heat pumps." www.hydrogeninsight.com/policy/hydro...

Pathetic. "This is worse than expected" ~CEG Pres. Seth Mullendore. "We are particularly disappointed in the admin's investment in blue hydrogen, which would more accurately be called fossil hydrogen with carbon capture. The fact that more than half the hubs will be using fossil gas is outrageous."

3/ I understand the EDCs working to the keep the LDCs in business reaping the ~10% return on equity the $40B GSEP guarantees (they make their money on infrastructure not gas, of course) but those reduced size ASHPs will never be inadequate for whole home heating. Then what? Fossil forever?

2/ That means they are promoting Eversource's position that keeping the entire $40B gas distribution system in place for just 34 hours of operation per year is the way to go.

1/ Synapse, MassDOER's consultant in the Grid Modernization Advisory Council process, is recommending incentivizing hybrid heating systems, that is undersized ASHPs with retained fossil heating for winter months. While speaking to this slide they said hybrid heating would achieve 95% GHG emissions.