NSTAR to slash big firms’ electricity rates
BOSTON – Large Massachusetts businesses that buy their electricity from NSTAR will get some relief from high energy costs in the fourth quarter, when...
Virtuous life (science) cycle
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed talks about renewable energy during an event last week marking the awarding of $1.5 million to the University of Rhode...
Farmers profit from move to locally grown produce
A growing appetite for locally grown food and a thriving network of farmers’ markets and farm stands are helping the state’s farmers weather a...
Branch Village planning inclusive
With its own exit off Route 146, North Smithfield’s Branch Village is an ill-defined assortment of homes, small businesses, strip malls, light industry and...
Boston firm gets OK for R.I. fertilizer plant
BOSTON – Converted Organics Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) announced last week that it plans to develop a manufacturing facility in Rhode Island, its third plant to...
Blackstone Tourism Council to honor <br>people, companies at 23rd annual...
PAWTUCKET – The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (BVTC) will honor two major companies with Blackstone Valley Lifetime Achievement Awards during the tourism council’s 23rd...
EPA to clean up suspected junkyard in Warren
WARREN – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set to begin a three-month clean-up project next week that will remove surface soils containing hazardous...
Carcieri: Force National Grid to buy renewable energy
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri today called on the R.I. Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to force National Grid, the state’s major power company,...
Capital Properties profits slightly off
EAST PROVIDENCE – Capital Properties Inc. reported earnings last week of $461,000 and $865,000 for the three- and six-month periods that ended June 30.
The...
Consumer prices rise 0.8% in July
WASHINGTON – Consumer prices outpaced expectations for the third month in a row, reaching their highest level in nearly a year an a half,...
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