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David Noyes alleges that two panel members' emails to the entire group violated the law.
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“The firefighting foam … was mostly used in the 70s and 80s, and one additional application in 1997 at the base,” said Heidi Pickard. “This is decades later that you're still seeing high levels in the fish.”
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The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the season safely reached Cape Cod Bay with its mother this week. The news came the same day another new mother of the species was reported dead off Virginia, killed by “catastrophic injuries” from a boat collision, also known as a vessel strike. Her calf, born in December, has disappeared and is unlikely to survive.
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Governor Maura Healey visited the Cape Cod YMCA in Barnstable Wednesday to announce that the state is adding seven new school districts — including Barnstable and Wareham — to a program that provides grants for preschool education.
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The decision is considered the main approval required from the Biden administration.
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The U.S Supreme Court announced that it would not hear an appeal by a group of Taunton residents who sought to reverse a lower court’s ruling to keep Mashpee Wampanoag tribal lands in trust. It was the final ruling of a case originally brought in 2015.
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Maria Soares was sworn in as a member of Governor Healey's first Youth Advisory Council.
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Work by a group supporting gun safety has paid off. The Falmouth Police Department is working with the State Police to have 26 surplus shotguns destroyed, rather than used as trade-ins toward new guns.
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A commission created by Gov. Maura Healey is recommending the state accelerate the approval of renewable energy projects and change the role of local communities in that process.
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The former congressman, who represented Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, died on Saturday at 82.
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This story was reported in collaboration with Science Friday and WCAI. Read the original reporting on Science Friday's website.
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Before the center opened this fall, IFAW had only about an hour to treat stranded animals out of a transport van. Veterinarian Sarah Sharp said she probably would have put this animal down if that was all the time they had.