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PUC backs contested Portsmouth LNG facility license. For now.
State utility regulators concur: Keeping, and expanding, a Portsmouth liquified natural gas facility as a back-up heating source for Aquidneck Island is a good...
Why Woonsocket’s sewage treatment plant can’t afford to fail
You smell it before you see it: a faint sour tinge to the breeze blowing out from the Woonsocket Wastewater Treatment Facility.
It’s hardly a...
Analysis: Electric vehicle transition will drain $217M from state coffers by...
The road to electric vehicles is paved with price tags: to build charging stations, offer rebates, not to mention a precipitous decline in the...
Caregiving demands still impacting R.I. women’s opportunities in workforce
Few industries escaped the crippling employment blow dealt by the COVID-19 pandemic. One exception in Rhode Island: construction, which was categorized as an essential...
R.I. fishermen file lawsuit notice over South Fork Wind Farm
A group of Rhode Island fishermen are preparing to sue state and federal agencies and a private wind developer over the construction of a...
CRMC member from Narragansett may be ineligible to serve
The state’s beleaguered coastal regulatory agency is facing new scrutiny amid allegations one of its members no longer meets the requirements of the position...
R.I. tax income from recreational cannabis trails projections by 25%
Rhode Island’s budding recreational marijuana industry has a marketing problem. Just ask Jonathan Leighton, general manager of Mother Earth Wellness.
“Most people in Rhode Island...
R.I. tax administrator: Tax refunds return to pre-pandemic rates
Pandemic-driven fraud, filing deadline extensions and staffing shortages turned the state tax return process upside down. Now, it’s righting itself.
The 413,000 tax refunds issued...
R.I. sportsbook revenue down 10% after Mass. expansion
The launch of online sports betting in Massachusetts on March 10 is already leeching money from Rhode Island, and more losses lie ahead.
In the...
Fewer turbines but more conflict for Revolution Wind farm
The fishing industry and offshore wind developers are again at odds over how a mammoth array of 80-story-high wind turbines will affect ocean species,...
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