Warren manufacturer agrees to EPA penalties
BOSTON – A Warren-based boat manufacturer has accepted terms of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that will have the company paying...
NatGrid shifts stance on renewable energy contracts
National Grid is working to sign long-term contracts to buy electricity from renewable-power suppliers – a development that advocates say would jump-start efforts to...
Putting aside business, R.I. men gather at campus
Every year for the past 15 years, on the third weekend of February, between 40 and 60 men throughout the New England business community...
Flooding, ‘green’ building issues in insurance
Mark A. Male has been named executive vice president of The Independent Insurance Agents of Rhode Island. He has more than 25 years of...
Are head winds gathering in R.I.?
It’s bad enough that NIMBYism has had its claws in the Cape Wind energy project for more than six years. And with U.S. Sen....
Small business owners air fears about R.I. deficit
Smithfield Diesel & Transmission Repair, a small Greenville repair shop for heavy-duty diesel engines, is struggling as its profit margins dwindle and the cost...
R.I. gets another $4.4 million in LIHEAP aid
WASHINGTON – Rhode Island will receive an additional $4.47 million in federal heating assistance funds part of $450 million Low-Income Home Energy Assistance...
U.S. retail prices dip 0.4% in December
WASHINGTON – U.S. retail and food-service sales last month fell 0.4 percent compared with the month before to a seasonally adjusted $382.9 billion, after...
Producer prices dip in December as oil prices subside
WASHINGTON – Wholesale prices paid to U.S. producers dipped a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent last month as oil prices temporarily retreated from record levels,...
Boston firm to build waste-to-fertilizer plant at RIRRC
JOHNSTON – Converted Organics Inc. (Nasdaq: COIN) of Boston today announced it will build a food-waste recycling facility in Johnston, on land leased from...
