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Article: License to care; Special plate sales boost environment.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2008
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Byline: Bradford L. Miner
For more than 15 years, the state's harbors, lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries have benefited from folks who pay the Registry of Motor Vehicles $76 for a new plate or $81 to renew a plate that displays their support for environmental protection and education.
The three environmental specialty plates feature a right whale, a brook trout, or a Blackstone Valley mill and waterwheel.
William W. Hinkley, program coordinator for the Massachusetts Environmental Trust, said there are now about 70,000 environmental license plates in the state - the Right Whale and Roseate Tern plates being the most popular, along with the ...