Gas prices soar in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, following crude trend
PROVIDENCE – Gasoline prices in Rhode Island and Massachusetts soared this week, with both states noting the largest one-week increase since April, AAA Southern...
Paper: Cape Wind energy prices high, not competitive with other green...
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BOSTON – Prices for electricity from the Cape Wind energy project, the $2 billion offshore wind farm, may translate into businesses paying...
RISD students to help address waste problem of sterilization wrap
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island School of Design has partnered with Kimberly-Clark Health Care, a major provider of hospital supplies, to develop “sustainable design solutions”...
High cost of wind farms makes insurance coverage a necessity
When you’re investing hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions, to construct an offshore wind farm, insurance becomes a necessity. With Rhode Island...
Buying local: cooperative launches Rhody brand of potatoes
It started as a suggestion at a meeting between W. J. Canaan owner Nathan Canaan and Rhode Island potato growers. Why not, the produce...
Sailing through company meetings aboard charters
When a corporation schedules a meeting with America’s Cup Charters in Newport, the company’s executives can be sure that their employees will not find...
R.I., feds collaborating on regs for wind farms
Rhode Island’s efforts to create a comprehensive blueprint for the future use of state waters became more closely aligned with federal regulators last...
Rhode Island lobster producers approved for trade adjustment benefits
WASHINGTON – New England lobster producers have been approved for benefits under the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers program.
Individual lobster producers from Rhode Island,...
D.E. Shaw, Deepwater Wind backer, cuts work force, assets decline
NEW YORK - D.E. Shaw & Co., a hedge-fund firm backing Deepwater Wind’s offshore wind farm project in Rhode Island, has fired about...
Deepwater Wind case to stretch into 2011; decision no sooner than...
PROVIDENCE – The court case over Deepwater Wind's proposed wind farm off Block Island will spill into next year.
The R.I. Supreme Court has...
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