Cumberland trucking firm fined $80K on federal hazardous waste charges
PROVIDENCE – Berkeley Transportation Co. yesterday was fined $80,000 in federal court for illegally shipping hazardous waste from a property in East Greenwich to...
Wind energy association honors TPI Composites
LOS ANGELES – Warren-based TPI Composites Inc. has been honored by the American Wind Energy Association with the 2007 Commercial Achievement Award for its...
AAA: R.I. gas prices fall 6¢ to $3.009/gallon
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island gasoline prices have fallen for the second consecutive week after 15 weeks of increases, according to AAA Southern New England....
CRMC, General Assembly agree:<br> Less runoff is good runoff
While the Smart Development for a Cleaner Bay Act of 2007 percolates through the legislative process, the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council has...
Keep the pressure on for R.I. wind energy
It is baffling that the Massachusetts wind energy project is meeting such a strong, well, headwind.
The project, which could supply 75 percent of the...
Out of the water, at long last
Volunteers from five organizations worked together last Monday to remove a barge that had been grounded on the Providence Harbor shore since the Hurricane...
Providence Equity completes sale of BlueStone TV
PROVIDENCE – Providence Equity Group has completed its sale of Witchita, Kan.-based BlueStone TV Holdings Inc. to Bonten Media Group LLC and its affiliates....
AAA: R.I. gas prices fall 2¢ to $3.069
PROVIDENCE – Gasoline prices in Rhode Island have fallen over the past week, after 15 consecutive weeks of price increases, according to a report...
Restaurant keeps it local with all its food supplies
If Local 121 were “just any other restaurant,” said Tree Callanan, “I wouldn’t have become involved.” But Local 121, which opened last month in...
APC embraces challenge of reducing energy usage
Call it growing pains, although not in a conventional sense. As businesses rely more on tools driven by electricity and energy prices soar, the...












