Emily Norton announces she wont be running for Council
Emily Norton posted the following message in here email newsletter this morning. Friends, I was first elected to the “Board of Aldermen” in 2013. It has truly been an honor to be your representative in local government, and to be able to respond when you needed help...
Dam busting on the Charles
We give Councilor Emily Norton a bit of grief on this blog, because of her anti-green housing positions, but she’s doing some great work in her day job. From the Watertown News comes a report of Councilor Norton’s push, as head of the Charles River...Norton is ready to ‘sell’ a narrower Mass Pike to constituents
Newton City Councilor Emily Norton is calling for scaling back the size of the Massachusetts Turnpike and Soldiers Field Road in the narrow stretch of land called the throat between BU and the Charles River – going from eight lanes to six on the Turnpike (three in... Norton: City Council is ‘not doing enough’ to combat climate change, ‘pressure us to do more’
Here’s an interesting Tweet from Newton City Councilor and Charles River Watershed Association Executive Director Emily Norton from the student-lead Boston Climate Strike. I spoke to #NewtonMA students before they left for #BostonClimateStrike — I said none of...Stormwater runoff is yucky
I was intrigued to read a press release this week from the Charles River Watershed Association and the Conservation Law Foundation about stormwater protection for the Charles River. Excerpt: [CRWA and CLF] have reached a proposed settlement with the U.S. Environmental...Cyclist: ‘The weakest link in my commute are the streets of Newton’
Tom Gloria, Program Director of Sustainability at Harvard University tweets…
Newton’s next ban? How about fossil fuel?
Just weeks after Brookline voted to ban the installation of oil and gas pipes in new buildings as well as in extensive renovations of existing buildings, Jon Chesto at the Globe reports that some Newton City Councilors want to do the same thing.
Here’s two excerpts from Chesto’s article:
Opponents representing various business development constituencies argue that this piecemeal approach to energy regulation will simply drive up construction costs and hinder economic development, while achieving minimal environmental benefits. They say the electricity-powered alternatives to natural gas, such as heat pumps, are more expensive and less effective.
[Newton City Councilor Emily] Norton, a former Sierra Club leader who oversees the Charles River Watershed Association, said she’s not really concerned about the impact on economic development. Instead, she’s
Great news: Northland project aligns with environmentalists’ goals
fIn an opinion piece in Commonwealth Magazine, “Bringing Nature Back into our Environment”, co-authored by Emily Norton, Newton City Councilor and Executive Director of the Charles River Watershed Association, and Reverend Vernon K. Walker, Program Manager of...The Slippery Slope of Size
To listen to the Right Size argument in Newton is to hear a lot about the heights of buildings. Right Sizers living near the Northland property think it has too many apartments, while those over near Riverside fretted (until recently) that it had too few housing units...
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