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.
A new study commissioned by First Street Foundation (a private risk-assessment firm) and reported in the July 21st issue of The New Yorker concludes that climate change has exacerbated the risk of catastrophic floods.
In the midst of a summer of record-breaking temperatures, solar power is generating record-breaking quantities of electricity and “steadily displacing energy production from coal, oil, and gas,” reports Bill McKibben in a July 9th article for The New Yorker. Excerpted from his forthcoming Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization, McKibben’s article makes the case for a profound energy paradigm shift, as solar continues its “exponential rate of growth” worldwide.
In her June 29th opinion piece for CommonWealth Voices, Kate Sinding Daly asks if rumors about the death of offshore wind power are, in the words of Mark Twain, “greatly exaggerated.” In spite of all the fossil fuel industry lobbying and Trump administration threats, “Turbines continued going up, large-scale projects got built and began turning wind into electricity, and the wind projects continued their progress toward construction.” In fact, Daly writes, “the industry is quietly completing massive projects that will supply power to millions of homes.” In Martha’s Vineyard, for example, “Vineyard Wind has quietly—very quietly—managed to get back to work on its 806-megawatt project. [It will] power 400,000 homes in Massachusetts, revitalize the port of New Bedford, and generate 2,000 jobs. The project is now generating electricity from 10 to 62 planned turbines…and has survived in the face of relentless attacks from the Trump administration, fossil fuel proponents, and greenwashing fronts. Baseless charges that wind power kills whales; lawsuits targeting transmission cables, substations, and transmission cables; phony “grassroots” organizations bankrolled by waterfront homeowners and/or oil and gas companies; attacks by the Trump bureaucracy—all so far have failed. Silence about success…seems to be a part of the strategy.” Read the full article. Just keep it to yourself.
In a new report published in Environmental Science & Technology, Boston University School of Public Health scientists examine the connections between “forever chemicals” and consumer products. While PFAS exposure through drinking water continues to rise, links have now been made to seafood, eggs, and brown rice.
In a June 27th report for the Green Energy Consumers Alliance, Larry Chretien and Mikaela Hondros-McCarthy underscore the upsides of Community Choice Aggregation, defined as “the process by which a city or town purchases its electricity in bulk on behalf of it community, including residential and commercial customers, often with the goal of reducing costs to ratepayers.” Across Massachusetts, 215 cities and towns (out of 315) currently have an aggregation plan in place.
A new study by scientists at the Lahey Hospital & Medical Center reveals that living near heavily microplastic-polluted waters along the US coastline may significantly raise the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease, a condition in which plaque blocks the blood vessels feeding the heart. “Marine Microplastic Levels and the Prevalence of Cardiometabolic Diseases in US Coastline Counties” was published in the June 18, 2025 issue of AHA/ASA Journal of the American Heart Association.
