by Sam Minton | Oct 27, 2024
Worsening extreme weather, linked to climate change, is bringing catastrophic flooding to homes that have never seen it before, and it’s putting financial institutions risk of serious losses.
by Steve Adams | Oct 13, 2024
The regulatory biggest changes in decades seek to push projects away from the waterfront and could raise costs for inland housing construction.
by Erin Delaney | Jun 19, 2024
Linda Orel comes to the nonprofit with a background in lobbying around climate issues and historic preservation and will lead initiatives in waterfront development and climate resiliency.
by Steve Adams | Mar 5, 2024
Boston’s Wharf District Council released a scenario of how coastal storms could inundate downtown properties as it lobbies for construction of an $877-million flood barrier.
by Steve Adams | Feb 23, 2024
Construction of a flood barrier to protect downtown Boston from sea level rise faces major hurdles in designing an effective defense while avoiding structural damage to Long Wharf and the MBTA Blue Line tunnel, according to preliminary findings by consultants.
by State House News Service | Dec 27, 2023
With more frequent and intense storms battering Massachusetts’ shores, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection released new draft regulations on Friday to “protect both communities and infrastructure from the impacts of climate change.”
by The Associated Press | Dec 18, 2023
Flooding is driving millions of people to move out of their homes, limiting growth in some prospering communities and accelerating the decline of others, according to a new study that details how climate change and flooding are transforming where Americans live.
by State House News Service | Nov 29, 2023
Massachusetts has more than 1,500 miles of coastline across 78 communities that count nearly 2.5 million people as residents, and the Healey administration on Tuesday mapped out the skeleton of its strategy for preparing those areas to deal with the impacts of a changing climate.
by State House News Service | Nov 17, 2023
Hundreds of millions of dollars of property taxes are on the line if sea level rise driven by climate change eats away at coastal home values, the report warns.
by Steve Adams | Aug 27, 2023
Developers behind the 6.5 million-square-foot Dorchester Bay City project are offering to take responsibility for protecting not only its vulnerable waterfront site from flooding, but large sections of surrounding neighborhoods.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 27, 2023
Around Boston Harbor, talk about sea level rise and future flooding has moved from hypotheticals to official design guidance. All of this is great progress however very few adaptation projects have been realized.
by Steve Adams | Aug 20, 2023
Designs of an $87 million flood barrier protecting downtown Boston will proceed to the next step after receiving state funding for additional engineering studies.
by Steve Adams | Jan 22, 2023
Once mainstays of the city’s economy, harborside piers now figure prominently in Boston’s attempts to protect against sea level rise. But engineering and financial challenges pose the kinds of barriers that won’t keep the water out.
by Steve Adams | Nov 13, 2022
Protecting downtown Boston from sea level rise will require a unified barrier between the North End and Atlantic Wharf, and waterfront property owners say time is running short to choose the most effective coastal defense strategy.
by Steve Adams | Oct 16, 2022
A state ruling could open up a 23-acre portion of the East Boston waterfront to large-scale development, replacing parking lots and warehouses with new industrial buildings serving airport-related industries.
by State House News Service | Oct 12, 2022
The threat coastal flooding poses to property values and property taxes could ding the state’s credit rating in future years, a ratings agency warned this week.
by James Sanna | Feb 16, 2022
Opponents of a proposed downtown Boston tower cheered Mayor Michelle Wu’s decision to relaunch a contentious waterfront zoning process Wednesday, but the building’s developer warned that “immediate further cooperation” was needed to make sure the resulting plan was able to protect the city from floods.
by The Associated Press | Feb 15, 2022
The report “is the equivalent of NOAA sending a red flag up” about accelerating the rise in sea levels, an expert said.
by The Associated Press | Nov 15, 2021
While world leaders and negotiators are hailing the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, many scientists are wondering what planet these leaders are looking at.
by The Associated Press | Aug 20, 2021
On the 30th anniversary of the last hurricane to make a direct hit on New England, the region warily braced Thursday for Tropical Storm Henri as it gathered strength and headed for the northeastern U.S.