News & Events

If your town has a fall town meeting, and many do in the next few weeks, you need to go. Why? The thought here is that the importance of decisions made locally has never been more important that it is now. The federal government is shut down, and the states are...

APCC is widely known for batting above our weight. Part of the reason our very talented but relatively small staff can cover so much ground is the help we get from our dedicated volunteers. Over 300 volunteers give their time to support our work in every way...

Living on Cape Cod we are accustomed to life on shifting sands. It is hard to live on a sandbar amidst both rising tides and the relentless pounding of the surf and to not at least be aware of the transience of everything. Reconciling our minds with this reality...

Despair is a word I hear a lot these days. There is a daily flood of bad environmental news about federal resource protection rules that once protected our land, waters and atmosphere being ignored, hollowed out, or repealed. The initial response of outrage has been...

A sure sign of the coming end of summer is the departure back to school of our summer interns. APCC has had a long tradition of summer interns making major contributions to the field work that so dominates our summers. The summer of 2025 was no exception as our...

The response I see most often to the relentless rollback of federal environmental regulations and the dismantling of essential agency functions is an impulse to restore or block the cutbacks. I have that response myself; it’s only natural. But I have come to conclude...

As much as I hate to admit it, we have turned the corner on summer. While there will be plenty of summer weather in the days to come, sundown is noticeably earlier now than in June, return to school thoughts are more prevalent and some of you are beginning to plan...

Sometimes these regular musings write themselves. This is one of those. What follows is mostly excerpts from something I bet most of you have never read: the text of a Senate Committee on Appropriations bill. The language included in the report reflects a stunning...

APCC’s newest roof top solar array, funded by the generosity of the Tern Foundation, is fully operational and powering our use as well as exporting to the grid. Despite the methodical attack on the solar industry at the federal level with the withdrawal of incentives...

Rollbacks of environmental protections are all the rage these days. While a lot of us are focused on changes at the federal level, trouble is brewing closer to home as well. It has become increasingly popular to blame environmental reviews and the underlying laws that...