The following blog post was originally posted on the Green Energy Consumers Alliance website by Larry Chretien & Mikaela Hondros-McCarthy on Tuesday, May 09, 2023. Regular readers of our blogs know where we stand on options consumers have for receiving … Read More
Attorney General Andrea Campbell wants consumers who buy electricity on the competitive supply market to know they have collectively overpaid by $525 million. In January 2023, Cambell announced her support to ban the companies like Clean Choice Energy from doing … Read More
Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at 7pm. Room 207 of Newton City Hall (1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton) and online. Under the “Ten Communities Act”, the City of Newton is one of the ten communities selected by the MA Legislature to participate … Read More
Mayor Ruthann Fuller has just signed a new two-year Newton Power Choice contract for Newton electricity customers. The new contract will provide electricity that is 95% from renewable sources, raising the percentage from standard of 84% under the current contract. … Read More
A NetGeo system is a street-segment system of networked ground-source heat pumps. There is a loop of pipe filled with pure water (no glycol added) running up and down the street in the gas utility’s right of way, with service … Read More
Newton has many hundreds of unrepaired gas leaks. Gas can cause explosions and fires, pollutes our air indoors and out, kills our trees and drives climate change. And, the utilities charge ratepayers for the lost gas. We all can help … Read More
Wednesday, May 10 from 1-2pm. Massachusetts State House, Rm 428. Join Mothers Out Front at the MA State House to show support for the Future of Clean Heat briefing, Senator Cynthia Creem’s bill on clean energy transformation. Please email info.ma.newton@mothersoutfront.org … Read More
Wednesday, May 10 at 12pm. Online. Massachusetts is working on “grid modernization.” What is that? What does it mean for consumers, greenhouse gas emission reduction, and environmental justice? What is the process? Join Green Energy Consumers Alliance as they present … Read More
The Campaign for a Future WithOut Gas is relieved to learn that National Grid has repaired a Grade 1 (potentially explosive) gas leak on Walnut Street, near the site of the April 6, 2023 manhole explosion and fire. Discovery of … Read More
Thursday, April 27 from 7-8:30pm. Online. Join Newton Dem’s Climate Crisis Subcommittee for this public forum on the dilemma created by a relative abundance of gas and existing and growing supportive infrastructure versus the urgency of the need for economy-wide … Read More
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