July 23, 2011
by Erik Potter, The Enterprise

Developers of a proposed natural gas power plant in Brockton have received a final air-quality permit from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

June 10, 2011
by Erik Potter, Enterprise News

Opponents of the proposed natural gas power plant on the city’s south side won a surprise victory Thursday when the state siting board said developers could not use city drinking water in their plant designs.

May 22, 2011
by Beverly Ford, WBUR

In all his years as an attorney, Jan Schlichtmann has had few lawsuits so profoundly affect him as a 1982 case involving eight Woburn families and a public water supply contaminated by toxic chemicals. Profiled in numerous newspaper, television and radio accounts along with the movie “A Civil Action” starring John Travolta, the lawsuit became a watershed event in environmental politics for Massachusetts and the nation.

Yet today, nearly 30 years after that landmark court case, the wells that supplied both toxic drinking water and a legacy of cancer to Woburn remain contaminated despite a $21 million cleanup effort. And no one, not even the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which monitors the site as part of the federal Superfund program, knows whether humans are still being exposed to its witch’s brew of chemicals, federal records show.

October 15, 2010
By Eugene Benson and Staci Rubin, Boston Globe

Your Oct. 4 editorial “On Chelsea Creek, city should pursue jobs amid conservation’’ rightly recognizes the appeal of the Chelsea Creek Action Group’s proposal for wetland restoration at the former Hess site in East Boston, and that industrial uses of the site raise environmental justice concerns. However, it is wrong to suggest that East Boston residents face a jobs-or-environment decision or that green industry on the site will yield anything economically viable.

September 12, 2010
By Chris Burrell, Boston Globe

A group of East Boston and Chelsea residents is battling the city over the future of seven acres of dilapidated land on Chelsea Creek and rallying support for its hope of returning the former fuel tank farm to a pristine wetlands.

December 10, 2009
Sandra Churchill, The Enterprise
WEST BRIDGEWATER —Writing new legislation to temporarily halt all construction of fossil-fuel power plants in Massachusetts is the next step for the a regional task force in its efforts to halt the proposed Brockton power plant...

December 10, 2009
95.9 WATD

An attorney who's opposing a 350-megawatt natural gas power plant proposed off Oak Hill Way in Brockton near the West Bridgewater line is recommending that a regional task force on the power plant endorse three legislative bills to try to stop it.

November 10, 2009
By Kyle Alspach, The Enterprise

BROCKTON —

Opposition to a proposed city power plant remains as strong as ever on the City Council following last week’s election, where voters rejected most candidates who supported the project.

October 28, 2009
Greater Boston with Emily Rooney, WGBH

September 4, 2009
By By Kyle Alspach, Enterprise News

Seventeen people from Brockton, West Bridgewater, are third group to file appeal