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 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...
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 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....
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...
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...
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...
















