Our lawns and plants are starting to get crunchy if you haven’t been watering. I know it seems as if we have had a ton of rain, but in reality, Boston hasn’t seen enough.
As this is the hottest stretch of summer, peak evaporation o…
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Man accused of robbing three Fall River stores within half hour
A man is accused of robbing three Fall River, Massachusetts, stores within a half hour on Thursday.
The first robbery occurred at about 10:08 p.m. at the Maplewood Mini Mart on Stafford Road, Fall River police said, where a man with a green T-…
Pilgrim nuclear plant wastewater discharge plan denied
The company decommissioning a nuclear power plant in Plymouth cannot discharge a million-plus gallons of industrial wastewater into Cape Cod Bay, per a determination state regulators released Thursday.
Holtec International, which owns the decommissioned Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, has sought for years the authorization to discharge 1.1 million gallons of wastewater from the plant’s spent nuclear-fuel pool — which contains some radioactive material — into the bay.
Local advocates have long opposed the plan, and last summer the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection tentatively denied a permit for the company to dump the wastewater into the bay, under the state’s Ocean Sanctuaries Act
On Thursday, the department made its final determination to officially deny the permit Holtec sought for the discharge.
“MassDEP reviewed the Holtec application, and after consultation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, determined that Cape Cod Bay is a protected ocean sanctuary,” a release from MassDEP said. “The Ocean Sanctuaries Act prohibits the ‘dumping or discharge of commercial, municipal, domestic or industrial wastes’ into ocean sanctuaries. The water that Holtec proposes to discharge qualifies as industrial wastewater, and therefore, the proposed discharge is prohibited.”
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Sunny skies and beautiful conditions to end the workweek
So far, the drier air hasn’t disappointed. Cooler start Friday morning one we haven’t seen the likes of since the beginning of the month!
The recent stretch of humid weather was record-setting in the city of Boston. For 15 straight…
6 charged with murder in Lynn shooting that killed 2 and hurt 5 last year
Six people have been charged with murder in a drive-by shooting that killed two last year in Lynn, Massachusetts.
The Essex County District Attorney’s Office announced the arrests Thursday, more than 10 months after the shooting that kil…
More than a year in the making, Mass. legislature sends gun bill to Healey
Without a single Republican vote, the Massachusetts House and Senate sent the governor a massive overhaul of the state’s gun laws Thursday, crossing one of the most significant items off of the Legislature’s rest-of-July to-do list.
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