Capital properties 1Q profit down from 2008
EAST PROVIDENCE – Capital Properties Inc. – owner of an East Providence natural gas terminal and much of the property that makes up Providence’s...
Coalition submits plan for energy efficiency
BOSTON – A coalition of the Massachusetts’ energy-efficiency providers last week announced a three-year plan to create more than $4 billion in energy savings....
Caprio expects office will have surplus of $1M
PROVIDENCE – General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio announced last week that he expects his state office to close out fiscal 2009 with a budget...
Hope for housing in green design
It was the day before Native Structures, a nascent Rhode Island homebuilder, broke ground last month on what the company hopes will be the...
Supreme Court halts marina expansion
PROVIDENCE – The state’s highest court yesterday stayed a ruling that had allowed Block Island’s Champlin’s Marina to expand into the Great Salt Pond....
URI’s Seemann leaving for Texas A&M
KINGSTON – In a blow to the state’s efforts to boost its science and technology sector, a prominent University of Rhode Island administrator who...
ARRA funding to bolster Rhode Island waterworks
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will get $45.8 million in funding and financing for infrastructure projects intended to ensure clean water and safe drinking water...
Deep-water construction impact on fisheries studied
Deep-water wind turbine farms have been built throughout the United Kingdom and in Germany and Denmark, but studies on the effects of their...
DEM seeks proposals for onshore wind farm
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management (DEM), working with Narragansett officials, has put out a request for proposal for the construction of...
Acushnet Co. cuts jobs as golf sales fall
FAIRHAVEN – The Acushnet Co. today laid off 169 workers at its golf ball factories in the New Bedford area as the company continues...











