A SCHOOL BUS company agreed to pay $165,000 in fines and court costs to settle charges that its drivers routinely allowed their diesel-powered buses to idle for as much as 20 minutes outside schools in New Bedford in violation of several anti-idling statutes. Attorney General Maura Healey’s office, which negotiated the settlement with Tremblay’s Bus […]
Bruce Mohl
Bruce Mohl oversees the production of content and edits reports, along with carrying out his own reporting with a particular focus on transportation, energy, and climate issues.
He previously worked at the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe’s State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe’s Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state’s pension system. He served as the Globe’s political editor in 1994 and went on to cover consumer issues for the newspaper.
Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Posted inEnvironment
Key breakthrough in fusion energy production
A CAMBRIDGE STARTUP working with officials at MIT said on Wednesday that it has achieved a major breakthrough in fusion technology that could begin revolutionizing the way energy is produced around the planet as early as 2030. Fusion produces energy the same way the sun does, by combining atoms under enormous heat. The allure of […]
Posted inEnvironment
Curtatone to head Northeast Clean Energy Council
SOMERVILLE MAYOR Joe Curtatone announced on Wednesday that he is taking over as president of the Northeast Clean Energy Council when his current term ends in January. Curtatone, who is wrapping up his 18th year in office, said he isn’t ruling out running for some political office in the future. But he said he wants […]
Posted inPolitics
Dem candidates for governor pushing big, expensive ideas
OVER THE LAST 30 years, voters in Massachusetts have been remarkably consistent, electing moderate Republicans as governor to serve as a counterbalance to the Democratic-controlled Legislature. The only exception to that trend was the election of Deval Patrick in 2006. He ran for an open seat when Mitt Romney chose not to seek reelection and […]
Posted inPolitics
Boston isn’t the only city with a hot mayoral election
EIGHT MASSACHUSETTS cities are holding preliminary elections for mayor this month without an incumbent standing for reelection. The exodus of the eight incumbents, who occupy roughly a quarter of the mayoral offices up for grabs this year, is an unusually high number and undoubtedly reflects the grind of COVID. Five of the incumbents decided to […]
Posted inPolitics
Legalization of happy hours, fireworks among approved ballot questions
ATTORNEY GENERAL Maura Healey’s office allowed 17 proposed laws and constitutional amendments dealing with a wide variety of public policy issues to keep moving toward the ballot on Wednesday. Assuming sponsors can gather 80,239 signatures, Massachusetts voters will be asked in 2022 to decide whether fireworks and turbocharged happy hours should be legalized. They will […]
Posted inEnvironment
Ida renews calls for decentralizing grid
HURRICANE IDA delivered a knockout punch to the power grid in New Orleans on Sunday, plunging the city into darkness and renewing a long-running national debate about the best way to deliver electricity at a time in history when severe storms and weather are becoming more commonplace. Storms like Ida illustrate the vulnerability of a […]
Posted inEconomy
Reckoning coming as fed unemployment benefits ending
MORE THAN 300,000 Massachusetts residents will lose federal unemployment insurance benefits at the end of this week, and no one is sure what that will mean for them or the state. The federal government is pulling the plug on the benefits, which include an extra $300 a week, extra weeks, and a special program for […]
Posted inUncategorized
Unclear whether VaxMillions increased vaccinations
STATE OFFICIALS are trying to spin the VaxMillions Giveaway as a success, but it’s very hard to say whether the lottery game actually did what it was intended to do – prod more people to get vaccinated. The Baker administration points out that between the time the game was announced on June 15 through the […]
Posted inTransportation
Wooing back riders: A tale of 2 transit agencies
THE MBTA and the Washington, DC, transit systems are trying to woo back riders as the summer comes to an end, but they are taking slightly different approaches. Both systems have suffered a COVID-induced falloff in ridership that is likely to continue as many employees continue to work (at least some of the time) from […]