STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker reiterated that he is "unlikely" to endorse a candidate in the Republican presidential primary and encouraged reporters to put the same question to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat and an influential voice in liberal politics.
"I'm going to focus on my day job, because this is going to be a long, grinding, torturous process between now and the end of it, and I don't want to be distracted by it," Baker said Thursday on his way from an event back into the governor's office suite when a reporter asked him about Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
BOSTON — A lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court by a Charles River environmental advocacy group accuses the Environmental Protection Agency of failing to notify high-density commercial and residential property developers of their responsibility to obtain stormwater discharge permits, a move that comes ahead of the federal government's plan to enact a series of expensive regulations on cities and towns located in the river's 308-square-mile watershed.
The complaint, filed by the New England-based Conservation Law Foundation and the Weston-based Charles River Watershed Association, looks to require the EPA to force "stormwater dischargers" to obtain discharge permits.
