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Quote mining for Boston Globes' "Communities vulnerable to climate change get $2m in state grants

(David Abel)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/21/baker-administration-gives-million-grants-communities-vulnerable-climate-change/Wrn5ZnsZ1deeB0bRsRg5LP/story.html?p1%3DArticle_InThisSection_Bottom

- The Baker administration gave $2m in grants to 15 coastal communities on the Friday prior to August 21, 2015

- This was among the administration's first acts to address climate change

- The goal was adaptation " to reduce their vulnerability to rising seas, erosion, flooding, and increasingly powerful storms"

- The aid supplements the $5m granted during the Patrick administration

- $350k was given to Boston, $400k to Winthrop "to repair tide gates and reduce" shore erosion, and $250k to New Bedford to fund a study to prevent sewer pump station flooding

- awards were given to "Barnstable, Boston, Brewster, Chelsea, Dennis, Edgartown, Essex, Falmouth, Lynn, New Bedford, Plymouth, Quincy, Sandwich/Barnstable, Scituate, and Winthrop."

- Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito supported the action in a verbal address

- Environmental groups like the Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Coalition applauded the plan, but urged more comprehensive, larger-scale action

- "Peter Lorenz, a spokesman for the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, declined to comment on whether the governor supports the bill."

- the Officials at the Office of Coastal Zone Management noted that the bill focused "more on action than on planning"

- The bill represents a shift from reactive assessment of erosion and flooding towards more comprehensive infrastructure implementation and beach restoration efforts

- The Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton argued that the state needs not only action and implementation, but also a higher-level integration plan. This is possible through a state-level bill that passed through state legislature and which was waiting — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jlevi (talk • contribs) 12:29, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]