
Wu Names Osgood to New Resiliency Post
A new Office of Climate Resilience at Boston City Hall will oversee the city’s attempts to limit the effects of climate change-induced flooding and extreme heat.
A new Office of Climate Resilience at Boston City Hall will oversee the city’s attempts to limit the effects of climate change-induced flooding and extreme heat.
Brian Swett is returning to Boston City Hall after a nine-year stint in the private sector to lead the city’s climate change and decarbonization policies.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
A flood barrier designed to protect waterfront properties including a K-8 school and shopping center is the first stage of a planned East Boston resiliency project.
A former state senator is lobbying support for creation of a regional government agency to protect Greater Boston communities from projected future storm surges.
Acres of parking on the Dorchester waterfront will become Boston’s next major mixed-use development including nearly 2,000 housing units under a 6.1-million-square-foot master plan approved by the Boston Planning & Development Agency.
A consulting team led by Arup recommends elevating a 1.5-mile section of waterfront from Christopher Columbus Park to Congress Street to ward off sea level rise and worsening storms.
Researchers are urging state legislators to allow experimental new coastal resiliency projects, providing a guide for protecting waterfront real estate from climate change.
An engineering firm will draw up designs for a 2,000-foot-long flood barrier to protect the Gillette Co. property and development sites in Fort Point from rising seas.
Mayor Michelle Wu laid out specifics about the advent of a new Boston Planning and Development Agency, including goals of accelerating approvals while emphasizing affordability, coastal resilience and equity.
Dorchester Bay City developers will construct a nearly 23-foot-tall flood barrier designed to form a continuous coastal resiliency defense to South Boston’s Moakley Park, reflecting anticipating sea level rise.
Commercial property investors are finally starting to include climate change in their decisions, as insurers and regulators change how they evaluate risk, panelists said at an MIT Center for Real Estate forum Wednesday.
Boston officials are asking engineering firms to come up with solutions to flooding that threatens one of the downtown’s top transportation and tourism hubs.
Boston has fallen behind in addressing the climate crisis according to a new report that urges city leaders to expand electrification of small residential buildings and step up its coastal resiliency planning and funding agenda.
Allston-based City Realty submitted plans to redevelop a Dorchester parking lot as a 52-unit apartment complex and elevate the site to protect the structure from coastal flooding.