Description: Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor is proposed as prison site, but Ilyas Bhatti & John DeVillars want to preserve it for its park land, old brick buildings and fort.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1990
Description: EPA press conference to announce issuing permit to build Pilgrim II nuclear power plant based on approved environmental impact statement. Second plant will share discharge system with Pilgrim I and barrier will be placed in channel to reduce fish kills from overheated water and nitrogen bubble disease.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/11/1977
Description: MWRA funds study to determine how long it will take Boston Harbor to flush out pollutants after cleanup process. Waves in water tank in MIT lab.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/13/1989
Description: Conservationist Mary Sherwood fights to save Walden Pond from encroachment by swimmers and developers. Walden environs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1989
Description: MWRA board chooses Fore River shipyard in Quincy as sludge processing plant for Boston Harbor cleanup. Residents are up in arms. Footage of site.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1989
Description: RESCO trash recycling plant
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1978
Description: Cuts of random footage at the beginning. Footage of a story on the building of a radio telescope observatory near the Quabbin Reservoir. Interviews with three men on the value a radio telescope and the environmental impact the observatory will have on the surrounding wildlife. Footage of the construction site. Office scenes, Quabbin Reservoir, and other b-roll.
Collection: WHDH
Description: Ray Flynn inaugurates trash recycling in Boston by dumping bags of newspapers into collection truck. Others toss bottles. Recycling bins lined up along sidewalk in Jamaica Plain.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/12/1990
Description: Petition is rejected on a technicality for ballot initiative on recyclable packaging. Excess wrapping being removed from junk foods. Seafood cartons, lobster boxes. Styrofoam manufacturing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1990
Description: SEVERE POLLUTION OF BOSTON HARBOR, OIL SLICK, SEWAGE OVERFLOW, DEAD FISH. William Golden, Ian Menzies.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/08/1986