What I’m Thinking

APCC will be in court on Friday to compel the Massachusetts Guard to immediately produce public records on a pressing matter of great public importance, which APCC properly requested and the Massachusetts Guard is unlawfully withholding, in violation of the state...

September is starting with a bang. APCC has been awarded $15 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Transformational Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience Grant to support planning, design, and implementation of five wetland...

Holtec ignored Governor Healey’s admonition last week and filed an appeal of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s denial of its permit application to discharge contaminated wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. Here is the simple truth about this appeal;...

My sister told me she loves our newsletter but that my column, the one you are reading right now, can be a bit depressing. She got my attention with that one. I’ll admit I tend to look at a situation and focus more on what remains to be done than celebrating what has...

The state budget is obviously about money, but it is also a vehicle where some important policy changes can be enshrined into law. The FY ‘25 budget just signed by Governor Healey contains two provisions especially important to water quality on Cape Cod. The first is...

The messaging around a proper response to climate change often, and necessarily, focuses on high level measures. Slogans promoting the conversion of power generation to low carbon sources, transitioning over to electric vehicles, and increasing coastal resilience are...

The decision by the Commonwealth to deny Holtec permission to use Cape Cod Bay as a dumping ground validated the legal case APCC presented to the Healey administration in 2023. Not only is this an important victory for APCC and Cape Cod Bay, it also validates that the...

It is well documented that the Massachusetts National Guard has taken issue with the EPA’s ability to conduct a sole source aquifer review of the proposed multipurpose machine gun range (MPMGR). The Guard complained when EPA announced its intention to undertake the...

Time in nature is said to be good for your mental and physical well-being. While I generally accepted that notion, I have never quite experienced it as viscerally as I did last week. Off for the week with many visitors, I was excited to see I could not shut down the...

The Supreme Court made last week a bad one for Cape Cod and the environment. Beyond the anti-environmental predicate behind the overturning of the clean air and fisheries rules, these decisions have far-reaching implications beyond their immediate impact of making the...