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This summer, New England experienced multiple record-breaking heat waves. In June, Boston had its warmest start to summer on record, and Providence hit 100 degrees for the first time. Globally, the last 10 years have been the hottest ever recorded, and that trend is expected to continue.

Every summer now feels like a new record-breaker; heat is no longer an anomaly but our new reality. This isn’t just about discomfort. Extreme heat is a present and intensifying crisis, straining our health, our infrastructure, and our wallets.

And yet, when the heat was at its worst, it wasn’t fossil fuels that kept t

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