Guest Op-Ed: Massachusetts’ New Energy Rules will Recognize what Frontline Communities have Long Known: Across Massachusetts, Frontline Communities Fought for Rules that Recognize the Burdens Neighborhoods Already Carry

Guest Op-Ed: Massachusetts’ New Energy Rules will Recognize what Frontline Communities have Long Known: Across Massachusetts, Frontline Communities Fought for Rules that Recognize the Burdens Neighborhoods Already Carry

By Roseann Bongiovanni For over ten years, East Boston fought an Eversource substation proposed across from a children’s playground, beside Logan’s jet fuel tanks, on a flood-prone shoreline along Chelsea Creek. Despite overwhelming public opposition, the state approved the facility. But along the way, we exposed a permitting system stacked against the communities it most affected. In coalition with advocates and communities statewide, we organi…