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Amazon’s Seaport tower first to use MIT spinout’s low-carbon cement

Amazon’s Seaport tower first to use MIT spinout’s low-carbon cement

By Greg Ryan  Four years after it was founded, Somerville startup Sublime Systems has the first commercial application of its low-carbon cement: Boston’s largest “net-zero” building, the new Amazon.com Inc. tower that’s going up in the Seaport District. Contractors for WS Development poured concrete that contained roughly three tons of Sublime cement at One Boston Wharf […]

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Voters Killed A Project To Get New England Off Fossil Fuels. A Court May Have Just Saved It.

Voters Killed A Project To Get New England Off Fossil Fuels. A Court May Have Just Saved It.

When Maine voters went to the polls last November, their ballots asked them to decide whether the state should prohibit construction on the Central Maine Power Company’s $1 billion transmission line from Canada. Nearly 60% said yes, retroactively blocking a project that state regulators had already approved. On Tuesday, Maine’s high court ruled that the […]

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