AAA: R.I. gas prices down 1 cent
PROVIDENCE – Gasoline prices at Rhode Island stations dropped 1 cent over the past week, in their fifth consecutive week of little or no...
EPA settlement paves way for cooling towers
BOSTON – A settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Dominion Energy Brayton Point LLC, endorsed by the State of Rhode Island and...
More renewable energy generated is still more energy
Even as leaders from 190 nations met in Bali recently to forge a climate-change agreement, U.S. consumers were steaming over soaring gasoline prices and...
Treading the waters
Next week, Providence Business News’ focus section will look at the marine industry in Rhode Island. Topics will range from regulations impacting the sector...
Rocky Point sold to Cambio and city for $21.56M
PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Small Business Administration today announced that most of the former Rocky Point amusement park has been awarded by a U.S....
EPA blocks California car-pollution standard
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last night ruled that California cannot limit automobile carbon emissions because those emissions would be reduced somewhat...
Study: R.I. sportsmen spend <br>more than $165M per year
WASHINGTON – Recreational hunters and fishermen have a significant impact on the Rhode Island economy, last year spending more than $165 million, according to...
Congress approves landmark energy legislation
WASHINGTON – The first new fuel-economy standards in 32 years, a fourfold increase in the use of ethanol and other “biofuels” and a phase-out...
EPA: Brayton Point deal to cut water use, heat 95%
BOSTON – A settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Dominion Energy Brayton Point LLC, endorsed by the State of Rhode Island and...
National Grid to cut emissions of greenhouse gases 60%
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – In its first U.S. corporate responsibility report, published today, National Grid sets goals that include reducing greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent...
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