Attorney General Maura Healey issued the following statement today in response to a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejecting challenges by the coal industry and several coal-producing states to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, a proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under the Clean Air Act

A new report released today outlines that Boston’s Olympic bid offers a unique opportunity to create new neighborhoods, build more housing, improve transportation infrastructure, generate short- and long-term jobs, and increase tourism in the Boston region. But the report says this can happen only if Boston 2024, the Commonwealth, the City of Boston, and neighboring municipalities establish a coordinated planning process that focuses

Hammond agents Karen Kennedy and Sandra Lynch of the Kennedy Lynch Team recently represented clients in connection with two significant Newton transactions. The team represented the seller client in the $2,850,000 sale of 155 Hobart Road and the buyer client in the $2,995,000 sale of 1201 Commonwealth Avenue.

Saul Cohen, Founder and President ofHammond Residential Real Estate, recently announced the $3,705,000 sale of 63 Hillside Road in Brookline, a premier Boston suburb. Hammond agents Eileen Strong O’Boy and Pauline Ho Bynum represented the seller in the transaction, and Matt Montgomery and Kelly Farrell Salem of the Matt Montgomery Group, also of Hammond, represented the buyer.

Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito announced today the opening of the fifth annual round of the MassWorks Infrastructure Program. The competitive grant program invests in local infrastructure projects that leverage housing production and job creation across the Commonwealth

Today a panel of nationally renowned land use and urban planning experts begin a five-day evaluation of metro Boston’s growing industrial land development issues. The Urban Land Institute (ULI) advisory services program convened the panel in order to help the cities of Malden, Massachusetts and Everett, Massachusetts create a plan for how to build on the growing business and mixed-use developments and further develop their unique regional presence and identity.

Affordability for senior citizens and families living at the 82-unit Power Town Apartments in Montague will be extended and property improvements will be made with the closing of $6.9 million in MassHousing financing.

U.S. Senators Gary Peters, member of the Great Lakes Task Force, and Debbie Stabenow, Co-Chair of the Great Lakes Task Force, today applauded the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative announcement to allocate $110,448 to the City of Muskegon to fund green infrastructure projects. The City of Muskegon plans to use the grant to install one constructed wetland, two rain gardens, and one bioswale to help the community prevent the discharge of more than 5 million gallons of untreated stormwater into Muskegon Lake and Lake Michigan each year.

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Richard Neal (D-Springfield) today introduced the Bolstering Our Nation’s Deficient Structures (BONDS) Act, legislation that would create jobs helping to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure. The BONDS Act provides financing tools to state and local governments to help build bridges, roads, schools and other local critical infrastructure proj

In an effort to help low-income residents find higher-paying jobs, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a $2 million grant for the next four years to the Boston Housing Authority. BHA competed with 57 other applications across the nation to be one of nine agencies awarded a Jobs-Plus grant. The HUD funding comes with more than $1 million in matching funds through the City of Boston aimed at increasing education levels, job search and placement and financial literacy assistance for public housing residents.

Citizens Bank announced today that its Community Development Lending Group has provided a $4.5 million rental construction loan for CHR Stable Path LP, a 23-unit mixed-income rental housing development by Community Housing Resource, Inc. located off Race Point Road in Provincetown.

Today Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash announced input and listening sessions in six cities across Massachusetts. The listening sessions will provide businesses and constituents an opportunity to help shape the Commonwealth’s economic development plan.

EPA has given a grade of “B+” for water quality in the Charles River during 2014. The grade reflects the slight drop in water quality, encouraging more work to be done.

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, praised the Obama administration for its new “Waters of the United States” rule that will protect the drinking water of 117 million Americans. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers held more than 400 meetings across the country and received more than one million public comments before issuing the historic rule

MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that the Massachusetts Court of Appeals ruled that MERS is a valid mortgagee that can hold legal title to the mortgage with the right to assign its interest in the mortgage.