NEW BEDFORD — Operation Clean Sweep’s last scheduled cleanup of the season will be in the Sid Wainer & Son neighborhood on Saturday, Sept. 27, from 9 a.m. to […]
Tag: environment
Board of Health to vote on proposed waste-transfer station
NEW BEDFORD — The city’s Board of Health is scheduled to vote Tuesday, Sept. 16, on the site suitability process for the waste-transfer station proposed by Parallel Products, doing business […]
EPA extends comment period for draft on New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site cleanup
The Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period for the draft ESD7 (seventh explanation of significant difference) for the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site to Saturday, Aug. 9. […]
Posted inThe Chat with Jack Spillane
New Bedford’s waste crisis: Is there a way out?
As costs keep mounting, environmentalists answer “Yes, there is.”
2nd Talking Trash conversation: ‘Sorting Through Misinformation of Recycling’
The second in a series of Community Conversations: Talking Trash will feature Katie Drews, co-president and CEO of Eureka Recycling in Minneapolis, who will present a talk on “Sorting Through […]
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Video: Opposing views join the Chat to discuss New Bedford’s recently passed nip ban
Both sides of the controversial nip ban in New Bedford have been heard. Which side do you agree with?
Posted inOffshore Wind
Save Right Whales group questions donations from wind power industry
A report released by the Save Right Whales Coalition catalogs $4.2 million between offshore wind developers to such groups as the Environmental League of Massachusetts, New England Aquarium and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.