Thursday, October 1, 2026

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URI professor Corey Lang awarded $1M to study how people value...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Corey Lang, associate professor of environmental and natural resource economics at the University of Rhode Island, wants to know what value...

Science reveals dark side of wind power

Any solution to global warming will almost certainly rely on an expansion of renewable energy, reducing carbon dioxide emissions with clean solar or wind...

Deepwater Wind to be acquired for $510M

PROVIDENCE – Deepwater Wind LLC will be acquired by the Danish company Ørsted for $510 million, the two companies announced Oct. 8. Ørsted has entered...
PBN WAS NAMED Newspaper of the Year for the third time in the last six years by the New England Newspaper and Press Association on Thursday. It was also recognized with a Publick Occurrences Award for its three-part series titled "Rising Waters."

PBN named Newspaper of the Year, honored for climate change series

NATICK, Mass. – Providence Business News was named Newspaper of the Year for specialty publications in the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s 2018...
REGULAR GAS PRICES in Rhode Island held this week at $2.84 per gallon. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/AKOS STILLER

R.I. gas prices hold at $2.84 per gallon

PROVIDENCE – The average price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in Rhode Island remained unchanged this week at $2.84 per gallon, 7 cents blow...
DEEPWATER WIND will be sold to a danish wind-energy company for $510 million. / COURTESY DEEPWATER WIND

Deepwater Wind to be acquired for $510M

PROVIDENCE -  Deepwater Wind LLC will be acquired by the Danish company Ørsted for $510 million, the two companies announced Monday. Ørsted has entered into...

R.I. receives $508K grant to support wildlife conservation

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has received $508,136 in federal funding through the State Wildlife Grant Program, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced Sept....
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S tariffs are expected to increase the cost of wind energy in the United States. / COURTESY DEEPWATER WIND

Trump’s import tariffs will make U.S. wind power more expensive

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump’s trade war won’t wreck the United States wind industry, but it will raise the cost of power. Tariffs on...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY reported that the number of air quality alert days in Rhode Island doubled year over year from the summer of 2017 to the summer of 2018.

EPA: Number of air quality alert days in R.I. doubles from...

PROVIDENCE – The number of air quality alert days in Rhode Island doubled from 2017 to 2018, according to the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday. The...
THE AVERAGE PRICE of regular gas in Rhode Island increased 1 cent this week to $2.84 per gallon. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/LUKE SHARETT

R.I. gas prices tick up, Mass. prices hold this week

PROVIDENCE – The average price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in Rhode Island increased 1 cent to $2.84 per gallon this week, 3 cents...
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