Salem News - Column: Public's voice must be heard in power transition

As Massachusetts pursues agendas of water innovation and clean, renewable power, one crucial issue joins these twin courses into a single, vital current. Will public voice — the ability of communities to speak concerns and self-determine — be heard in the midst of major redevelopment and remediation projects statewide?

As Paul McMorrow notes in an Aug. 17 Commonwealth Magazine article, market forces are driving coal to extinction.