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IMAGE: No Compressor rally in Weymouth on January 12, 2019 in response to Governor Baker allowing MassDEP to ignore laws, regulation, policies and science to issue an air permit for a polluting gas compressor. South Shore Mayors and other representatives join residents and environmental groups for this Rally in the Park.
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Art Against the Weymouth Compressor Station

By Bryanna F. Drew

For a fun family day of art and political activism, join the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (FRRACS), the Braintree Art Association and other environmentally conscious South Shore […]

"The 'Door to Hell.'" In 1971, Soviet geologists were drilling in the Turkmen desert when the land gave way beneath them, leaving a seventy-meter-wide, noxious gas–emitting crater. They ignited the gas to try to burn off the excess, but the crater has been ablaze ever since. Darvaza, Turkmenistan, 2012. Courtesy Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. © Chloe Dewe Mathews.
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SHAPED BY OIL: MATHEWS DOCUMENTS LIFE IN THE CASPIAN STATES

By Isabel Barbi

Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews brings the environmental and cultural facets of the five countries bordering the Caspian Sea to viewers in the recently-opened exhibition, “Caspian: The Elements.” In October 2018, […]