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Environment

  • AG puts renewed scrutiny on Peterson Oil over biodiesel, reaches additional settlement

    Kevin Koczwara January 23, 2023

    The Massachusetts Attorney General earlier in January reopened the case where Peterson Oil delivered heating fuel to the state allegedly containing too much biodiesel.

    Kevin Koczwara January 23, 2023
  • Decarbonization lobby wants Healey moving full speed ahead

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 12, 2023

    Climate and environmental activists made clear Wednesday that they feel they have a real ally in Gov. Maura Healey and sent a direct message to the new administration's climate chief: it's time to get to work.

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 12, 2023
  • WPI partners with Chicago investment firm to reduce carbon footprint

    Timothy Doyle January 11, 2023

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Chicago investment firm Harrison Street announced a partnership on Tuesday aimed at reducing WPI’s carbon footprint by expanding energy-conservation measures, improving WPI’s power plant, and developing

    Timothy Doyle January 11, 2023
  • Healey sees economic gains in shift from fossil fuels

    Chris Lisinski January 11, 2023

    After making affordability a major theme of her campaign, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday that her administration's focus on clean energy and combatting climate change goes hand-in-hand with helping Bay Staters deal with rising costs of living.

    Chris Lisinski January 11, 2023
  • Central Mass. splitting $1.6M for Green Community projects

    Kevin Koczwara January 4, 2023

    Sixteen Central Massachusetts received nearly $1.6 million total in Green Community Grants from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources for energy efficiency and clean energy projects. 

    Kevin Koczwara January 4, 2023
  • Baker admin sees benefits in funding Maine wind project

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 3, 2023

    A 1,000 megawatt onshore wind project planned for northern Maine and an associated transmission build-out "would provide benefits to Massachusetts and the region," the Mass. Department of Energy Resources said as it determined that it makes sense to

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 3, 2023
  • DPU approves wind contracts

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 3, 2023

    The Department of Public Utilities on Friday approved the contracts between both the Commonwealth Wind and Mayflower Wind offshore wind projects and Bay State utilities, rejecting Commonwealth Wind's request to scrap an agreement that it says would

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 3, 2023
  • Peterson Oil to face class action lawsuit for allegedly selling bad oil mix

    Kevin Koczwara December 29, 2022

    A lawsuit filed by several customers against Peterson Oil Service Inc. of Worcester accusing the company of knowingly delivering the wrong mix of heating oil was certified on Dec. 12 as a class action lawsuit by a Worcester Superior Court judge.

    Kevin Koczwara December 29, 2022
  • Energy & environment 2023 economic forecast: Better sources of power

    Kevin Koczwara Updated: December 26, 2022

    The energy industry is moving quickly toward development of environmentally friendly technologies

    Kevin Koczwara Updated: December 26, 2022
  • Our annual look forward

    Brad Kane Updated: December 26, 2022

    At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what the following year would bring: a worldwide pandemic, an economic shutdown, the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, massive government intervention, empty offices, and the start of a

    Brad Kane Updated: December 26, 2022
  • DEP chief to helm waste management nonprofit

    Sam Drysdale December 20, 2022

    The state's top environmental protection official will be leaving come January to take over an interstate nonprofit focused on waste management.

    Sam Drysdale December 20, 2022
  • Millis agriculture firm granted $1.5M for aquatic plant-based protein research

    Timothy Doyle December 20, 2022

    Millis vertical farming company, Crop One Holdings, Inc. and New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have received a $1.5 million cost-matching grant from the nonprofit Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research in Washington D.C. to fund

    Timothy Doyle December 20, 2022
  • Auburn solar co. moving to Worcester

    Timothy Doyle December 15, 2022

    Bright Planet Solar of Auburn is moving its New England Regional warehouse and sales office to Worcester, according to a Wednesday press release from Worcester real estate broker Kelleher and Sadowsky Associates, who brokered the company’s lease.

    Timothy Doyle December 15, 2022
  • State launches $50M fund to aid clean energy startups

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service December 8, 2022

    Clean energy technology companies that have promising products that could help the state meet its decarbonization goals but might not have the capital to make their ideas a reality have a new potential source of funding.

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service December 8, 2022
  • Mass. gas prices fall by 10 cents

    Coley Lynch December 6, 2022

    The average cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts has fallen by 10 cents in the last week, now at $3.66.

    Coley Lynch December 6, 2022
  • Commission says Mass. should develop clean heat standard for buildings

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service December 1, 2022

    A commission that spent the last 11 months studying ways to help the state meet its emissions reduction requirements by shifting to cleaner buildings and addressing heating fuels that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions released its final

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service December 1, 2022

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