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Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. |
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This week, reporter Jordan Wolman covers Attorney General Andrea Campbell's admonishment of Massachusetts's five gas companies for submitting "completely inadequate" climate compliance plans. Campbell recommended that the Department of Public Utilities issue fines if suppliers don't submit substantially reworked roadmaps for weaning customers off natural gas. |
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Plus, Cape leaders fear that a federal failure to finance the replacement of a 91-year-old bridge will lead to costly stopgap repairs, state policymakers mull restricting children's social media use, the Senate energy chair signals the chamber may not be on board with the House's plan to cut $1 billion from Mass Save, and the Supreme Judicial Court upholds the verdict finding tobacco company Phillip Morris liable in the lung cancer death of a Middlesex County woman. |
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Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. |
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— The CommonWealth Beacon team |
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| | The central tension: Getting Eversource, National Grid, Unitil, Berkshire Gas, and Liberty to move away from how they currently make money — providing gas to customers. | |
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| | The Sagamore Bridge replacement project is fully funded, but barely any money has been committed to its partner, and some local officials think it’s time for Beacon Hill to start committing additional resources to guarantee success. excerpt: “Both bridges need to be replaced, whether the bulk of it comes from the federal government, whether it’s split equally, whether the state picks up more, whether we’re looking at alternative funding mechanisms,” he said. “They’ve got to be replaced. They were designed as a system almost 100 years ago to accommodate a million trips a year. They currently see 38 million trips a year, which is nearly the equivalent of the Golden Gate Bridge. So we can’t just do one.”
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| | Massachusetts may join a growing number of governments here and abroad looking to force stricter rules for social media companies with young users. | |
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| | Finding consensus on how best to strike a balance between stemming high prices, meeting rising power demand, and achieving ambitious climate commitments has proven fraught. | |
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| | Massachusetts’s highest court on Wednesday affirmed $56 million in punitive damages in a wrongful death suit against tobacco giant Philip Morris, rejecting the company’s argument that a jury’s initial award was so extreme it demonstrated prejudice requiring a new trial. | |
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This week on The Codcast, two experts dive into what’s behind the surge in momentum for government regulation of social media use by minors. |
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