October 24, 2020. Boston, MA. About 50 activists rallied and lined Melnea Cass Boulevard to protest a controversial plan to cut down about a quarter
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October 24, 2020. Boston, MA. About 50 activists rallied and lined Melnea Cass Boulevard to protest a controversial plan to cut down about a quarter of the mature trees lining Melnea Cass Boulevard in Roxbury. In September after pushback from the state attorney general’s office and activists who denounced the move as environmental racism, Boston officials appeared to back down from the plan. The city’s Climate Ready Boston plan shows Melnea Cass Boulevard runs through a “heat island, ” a portion of the city where temperatures are markedly higher than elsewhere in Boston and cutting down the trees would disproportionately affect the Roxbury community. Roxbury activists have voiced opposition to the plan from the beginning, citing what they said would be the loss of trees that help mitigate pollution and reduce extreme temperatures and unsafe street crossings. © 2020 Marilyn Humphries