Category: Environment & Health

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it has no evidence that workers at the shuttered Pilgrim nuclear power plant, which is in the long process of being decommissioned, were overexposed to radiation, despite a whistleblower’s claim made in a recent anonymous letter to state officials.  In an email to the Independent, NRC spokesperson Neil Sheehan said […]

Celeste Harrington, a Ponds of Plymouth resident since 2003, remembers when the water was fine.   “Until Aquarion,” she said. “You could drink it out of the faucet. It tasted good.” Now, however, her water is “sometimes brown,” Harrington said, and “it always smells like bleach.” Other residents of the massive South Plymouth subdivision say […]

Plymouth’s Select Board has voted to approve a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan for the town, an aspirational outline for how it will cope with rising sea levels and other environmental changes in coming years. Developed over the last year by the Town’s Climate Action/Net Zero Committee, or CANZ, the plan provides an initial – […]

Most of Stephens Field is torn up, but the outlines of the reimagined waterfront park are emerging as the long-anticipated $5 million project moves toward a planned mid-July finish.   Signs of progress at the site are obvious as work – which began in October – picks up steam with the arrival of warmer weather. […]

Everyone can agree that Plymouth’s precarious aquifer, which supplies the town’s drinking water, needs to be protected. But local activists warn that an increasing number of industrial, commercial, and residential development projects, as well as sand-mining operations, are putting the quality of our water at increasing risk.   Town officials say they are trying to […]