Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey wrote more than 20 car manufacturers, asking them to continue to have AM radios in future models, including electric vehicles. “Broadcast AM radio remains a crucial, cost-free source of news, sports, and weather, and, more importantly, is...

The Massachusetts cities of Avon, Peabody and West Springfield will be home to AAA's expansion of its mobile EV charging service, reports Green Car Reports. AAA first added EV charging to its map services in 2012.

Construction has begun on the 339-mile Champlain Hudson Power Express, which will deliver Canadian hydropower to New York City, reports Canary Media (here). It won't benefit us in New England, unlike the power that would have come down through defunct Northern Pass in...

Seniors - people in my age group - are often an obstacle to intelligent town planning. We don't like change and we're afraid that weird things like bike lanes and housing that's different than single-family homes on big lots will "ruin the neighborhood character" and...

If there’s one thing you want when heading into the backcountry in winter, it’s predictability. But that one thing is becoming harder to get. “We’re finding in the last five years that (it is) much harder to get accurate longer-range forecasts due to the weather...

The US Patent Service has changed the way it reports patents and we can no longer include direct links to each patent. You can find them here, using the patent number. By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire...

Bloomberg has an article (here it is) about tearing down Vermont Yankee. Apparently it's going better than planned - the site may be ready for redevelopment by late 2026, four years earlier than planned. This detail surprised me: "There’s 1.2 million gallons that were...

Vermont is a tiny auto market and its decisions have little national repercussions but this (as reported by the VT DIgger via Valley News) is still impressive - it may join the program adopted by California in August: State regulators are on the cusp of adopting a...