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TRAFFIC ON I-95 passes a sign listing gasoline prices at a convenience store in Newton, Mass. /

AAA: Gas rises 2¢ at R.I. stations, diesel falls 1¢

PROVIDENCE – Gasoline prices at Rhode Island stations “are now just 3 cents from the all-time high ever recorded locally … in the immediate...
A SIGN in West Greenwich alerts drivers to the Big River Management Area. More than 40 years ago, 8,600 acres were reserved there for a reservoir that was never created. /

Big River watershed back in the mix

More than 40 years after 8,600 acres in central Rhode Island were set aside for a reservoir that was never created, plans are finally...
RICHARD SANDOR, chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange, believes that emissions trading will evolve naturally. The Chicago exchange has members around the world. /

Climate change now part of business landscape

For the past decade business leaders have often argued that climate change is an issue for environmentalists to worry about, but that attitude is...

Carcieri to seek bids for an offshore wind farm

The state will seek bids from private developers to build and operate an offshore wind farm designed to generate 1.3-million megawatt-hours per year just...

Water solutions more than digging holes

While the political insiders seem to have decided that it is time to tap into the aquifer in the Big River Management Area, we...

National Grid wins national energy-efficiency awards

WALTHAM, Mass. – National Grid’s energy efficiency programs garnered three national awards this year from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of...

Carcieri proposes wind farm off Block Island

PROVIDENCE – The state will seek bids from private developers to build and operate an offshore wind farm designed to generate 1.3-million megawatt-hours per...

Carcieri to seek bids for offshore wind farm

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri this afternoon will announce a plan to seek bids from private developers to build and operate an ...

17 states ask high court to make</br> EPA rule on greenhouse emissions

WASHINGTON – A multistate petition filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court asks the court to require a ruling from the U.S. Environmental Protection...
NEW BEDFORD will get $75,000 for fire-boat restoration plus a share of a $5.50M dredging grant it will divide with Fairhaven, the Seaport Council said. It also will receive a portion of two statewide grants. /

Seaport Council awards $8.2M for port projects

BOSTON – The Mass. Seaport Advisory Council this week awarded $8.2 million for improvements to ports from Fall River to Salem. The greater part...
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