A recent Globe article covered the Franklin Park stadium and ACE’s legal efforts, through our Environmental Justice Assistance Network, to empower residents to fight its construction.

For Tristan Thomas, director of policy and law at the Roxbury-based nonprofit Alternatives for Community and Environment, which does environmental justice advocacy, the report card’s environmental justice section failed to inspire confidence.

“We need to protect ratepayers and community members,” said Tristan Thomas of Alternatives for Community and Environment. Thomas claims hyperscale centers come with a pattern seen nationwide: “When these hyperscale data centers move in, utility bills go up.”

Tristan Thomas, director of policy for the nonprofit Alternatives for Community and Environment, said the proposed regulations should be rejected since they “lack basic safeguards for our environment, public health and our economy.”