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Falmouth officials are trying to mitigate the financial damage to the town from two stilled wind turbines.
Removing them is estimated to cost between $8.1 and $9.6 million, and the town is also potentially on the hook for $3.5 million of a $5 million loan from the state's Clean Water Trust.
Several district attorneys in Massachusetts are calling on judges to stop using more lenient sentencing guidelines that contradict minimum sentences set by law.
One example: Rape and abuse of a child aggravated by age difference between the defendant and the victim carries a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence in state law (Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 265, Section 23A), but according to Essex County district attorney Jonathan Blodgett, the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission has recommended a sentence of 7 ½ years, and some judges are going by it. Blodgett calls it a "a clear violation of existing law," according to the Brockton Enterprise.