Massachusetts Community Advocates for Clean Alternative to Peaker Plants
An overview of the proposed peaker plant in Peabody, MA and the community’s fight for a renewable future. In 2015, Massachusetts approved construction of a 55-megawatt (MW) natural gas power plant in an environmental justice neighborhood of Peabody, MA. The plant’s construction continues after decades of grassroots environmental justice activism, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on…