Spotlight

Boston Green Action members frequently author articles on a range of issues pertaining to climate action. We proudly present some of our notable perspectives, along with research findings that we champion. 

“The Era of Climate Resilience”

UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco’s March article in Research Magazine is a call for new ways of navigating the climate crisis and protecting people and ecosystems. His is an urgent call for MAST—Mitigation, Adaptation, and Social Transformation.

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“Land Subsidence Risk to Infrastructure in US Metropolises”

A May 8th study published in the British journal Nature Cities charts the threat of sea level rise in major US cities. Boston is among the urban areas most susceptible to an “invisible threat, land subsidence.” According to the study authors, “Land subsidence is a slow-moving hazard with adverse environmental and socioeconomic consequences worldwide.

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CCI Report: “How Big Oil and the Plastics Industry are Promoting a False Solution to the Plastic Waste Crisis”

The Center for Climate Integrity has issued a scathing report on the disinformation promoted by Big Oil and the plastic industry. In fact, industy claims about “advanced recycling” are “undermined by their own words and experts.

“’The Fraud of Advanced Recycling’ shows how, in response to growing public and governmental pressure, Big Oil and the plastics industry are now deceptively marketing “advanced” recycling to the public, even as chemical engineering experts, industry consultants, trade associations, and plastics producers themselves quietly acknowledge its many flaws.

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Common Chemical Phthalates Linked to Cardiovascular Disease Worldwide

A new study published in eBioMedicine (April 28, 2025) draws an alarming connection between plastic polymers and chemical additives and “increased oxidative stress, metabolic dysfunction, and cardiovascular disease…”—and death. The study authors, Sara Hyman, Jonathan Acevedo, Chiara Giannarelli, and Leonard Trasande (New York University Grossman School of Medicine), have found that “plastics pose a significant risk to increased cardiovascular mortality, disproportionately impacting regions which have developing plastic production sectors.

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