Healey’s shift toward nuclear energy raises affordability, feasibility questions
ADVERTISEMENT New from CommonWealth Beacon COMPETITIVENESS: Gov. Maura Healey’s top economic development official and state lawmakers musings at a recent budget hearing about affordability in the nation’s second-most expensive state centered on one buzzword: competitiveness, Jennifer Smith reports. OPINION: A change in guard at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority should bring with it a new focus to clean up the Mystic and Charles rivers, write Paul Levy, a former MWRA executive director, and Emily Norton, the head of the Charles River Watershed Association. Healey’s shift toward nuclear energy raises affordability, feasibility questions March 11, 2026 By jordan wolman A push from Gov. Maura Healey to expand nuclear power in the state is taking nascent steps forward and stirring debate around how Massachusetts should contend with the Trump administration’s opposition to wind power, which not long ago was the pillar of th...