S2662, the growing American Innovation now act or the g. A. I. N. Act this would bring long overdue ledges lative reform to the Clean Air Act review program. It protects air quality when industrial boilers, factories and power plants are modified or newly built. The g. A. I. N. Brings clarity to factory and power plant owners as well as to state permitting officials about when permits are needed. The new Source Review Program was originally designed to support pollution control projects and upgrades. Its actually had the opposite effect. In its current form the program is complex. Its costly. Its time consuming. The program directly slows Economic Growth. It slows job creation. It slows Technical Innovation as well as the ability to modernize our american industry and infrastructure. The Portland Cement Association Submitted a letter outlining the extreme burden that new source review places on its members. The association explained that, quote, a Member Company sought a permit to comb
The rest of the area drying out in a sense. Feel still very muggy out there, helping to fuel some mist, fog, 69 for you in boston, 62 in worcester, waking up to the 60s but look at that dense fog in worcester and bedford now spreading down to norwood this hour, up to portsmouth, New Hampshire, not looking much better in beverly, either. Hourbyhour forecast going to have a ton of clouds and fog with temperatures scooting into the 70s here, upper 70s by lunchtime but no clearing really until the hourbyhour look with future cast coming up. Here is Julie Grauert with accident update. Julie accident on 128 southbound on route 128 has cleared. However, we have a in you one on route 1, it is in saugus at broadway street, southbound right at main street, and slowing things down on route 1. As we shift southbound average speeds on the expressway 11 miles per hour. Also want to remind you you can expect some delays in the chelsea area on route 16 westbound because of an earlier 36 minutes route
Begins today in oklahoma. The final state to allow early voting. Well, the road to 270 Electoral College votes runs through tampa today. Joe biden and President Trump are making appearances in the battleground state of florida. Trump also has a stop in North Carolina where absentee ballots can be counted up to nine days after the election. We have more on that in a moment. A worsening pandemic hangs over the final days of a bitterly contentious race. Biden keeps hammering home the contrast between the candidates as the reality of a dark winter ahead sets in. Another 79,000 coronavirus cases reported yesterday in the u. S. The three worst days of the entire pandemic have all come in the past week. 41 states are headed in the wrong direction. 0 states are seeing a decline in cases. Dr. Anthony fauci now warning the u. S. May not be back to some version of normal until 2022. And he went further than hes ever gone advocating for a National Mask mandate. Do we need a National Mandate . You
Still in the crosshairs right now. Snowfall expected to get more than two feet in some areas. Coastal flooding becoming another major concern. Also expected to get hit hard maine and new hampshire. Both of those states still under a state of emergency. Officials still urging people to stay off the roads and to stay at home. Lets kick things off with our meteorologist who continues to follow the storms track. Who is getting hammered right now . Right now eastern massachusetts and rhode island. They are in the brunt of the storm. We have impressive snow totals. This is a new update. For mass 30 inches. Worcester 26 inches. Boston, 21 1 2 with an inch of snow coming down per hour. Still looking at heavy bands. We will see it lighten up. We can see it lighten up as we head through the afternoon so by tonight the storm system will start to die down. We will not see these heavy bands of snow. They will start to lighten up. What we will continue to get is that blowing and drifting know. This