R.I. manufacturers name award winners
PROVIDENCE – Four successful manufacturers and a top-ranking politician in the state House of Representatives will receive awards from the Rhode Island Manufacturing Association...
Exeter plans Borderlands workshop
EXETER – Exeter has scheduled a public workshop for Oct. 29 as part of the Borderlands Project, an ongoing study of community planning for...
R.I. to get $38.8M in LIHEAP aid
WASHINGTON – Rhode Island will see a 90-percent increase this year in federal funding for its Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), according to...
Southern Union guilty of mercury-storage charge
PROVIDENCE – Southern Union Co., the Houston-based owner of New England Gas Co. and former owner of Providence Gas Co., today was found guilty...
Newport welcomes refurbished RIPTA trolleys
NEWPORT – City officials and preservation advocates today joined the R.I. Transportation Authority in celebrating the return to Newport of two of five refurbished...
Producer prices fall 0.4% in September
WASHINGTON – Wholesale prices for finished goods fell in September on lower fuel costs, in their second consecutive month-over-month decline, but continued to rise...
Study gives R.I. a ‘B’ on net metering
NEW YORK - A new law passed last summer helped Rhode Island improve its grade to a “B” in an environmental group’s annual report...
AAA: Local gas prices ‘plunging’
PROVIDENCE – “Lower oil prices are leading to plunging prices at the pump, with a 21-cent drop in Rhode Island in the last week,”...
Equity firm merging SolarWrights, Solar Works
BOSTON and BRISTOL – Riverside Partners LLC, a Boston-based private equity firm, today announced the acquisition and merger of Bristol-based SolarWrights Inc. with Montpelier,...
… as do funds for preserving open space
Question 2 on the ballot, directing the state to issue bonds to permanently protect open space, recreation, agriculture and forest lands, and state parks,...
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