New lawsuit seeks to force EPA to limit<br> oil refineries’ global-warming emissions
WASHINGTON – Rhode Island and Massachusetts have joined a new multistate lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to regulate oil-refinery emissions.
Plaintiffs in...
Bounce back from deflation
Failure is all too common in business. Anyone who has ever run a business wakes up regularly with nightmares about the what-ifs.
Successful businesspeople, however,...
MJSA show links jewelry-makers with suppliers
Just as the manufacturing industry in Rhode Island is moving to cleaner and leaner operations, so too the job of making jewelry is more...
Lynch announces cleanup plan for lead paint
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch last week announced the remediation phase of the statewide lead-safety program, slated to include the cleanup...
Service workers learn about Providence, its history
If a visitor from out of state were to ask you about the history of those remarkably well-preserved Colonial homes on Benefit Street in...
Trolley tours educate, entertain
When Splash Duck Boat Tours closed its doors in Providence in 2007, the aquatic bus’ captain of four years, Jack Keefe, wasn’t ready to...
AAA: R.I. gas prices fall 10¢ to $3.589
PROVIDENCE – “Labor Day travelers will see a continued reduction in gas prices locally, as another 10-cent drop in Rhode Island leaves prices...
Industrial production surprises with July gain
Industrial production in the U.S. unexpectedly increased last month, helped by gains in automobiles, metals and machinery.
Output at factories, mines and utilities rose...
Whitehouse, experts warn of local climate change
NARRAGANSETT – U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and a panel of top scientists warned today that climate change will have a dramatic impact on Rhode...
Batting resigns chairman post at RIPTA
PROVIDENCE – Robert D. Batting, chairman of the R.I. Public Transit Authority, has resigned, the authority confirmed this morning.
The reasons for his departure were...
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