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Green Business

  • Central Mass. businesses to split $264K to improve mattress and food recycling

    Kevin Koczwara April 25, 2023

    Four organizations in Central Massachusetts received grants totaling more than $264,000 to help expand the collection of mattresses, textiles, and food materials as part of the Commonwealth Recycling and Reuse Business Development Grant program on

    Kevin Koczwara April 25, 2023
  • Central Mass. water improvement projects to split $152M in financing

    Kevin Koczwara April 14, 2023

    Fourteen projects across Central Massachusetts have received more than $152 million in federal and state low-interest-rate loans and grants to improve water quality, upgrade or replace drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, and reduce treat

    Kevin Koczwara April 14, 2023
  • WBJ names the 2023 Manufacturing Excellence Award winners

    Brad Kane Updated: April 3, 2023

    Now in its eighth year, the Manufacturing Excellence Awards seeks to highlight the past, present, and future of manufacturing in Central Massachusetts.

    Brad Kane Updated: April 3, 2023
  • Manufacturing awards: VALIS develops technology to improve scrap recycling

    Kevin Koczwara Updated: April 3, 2023

    VALIS grew out of an idea at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Leominster research-and-development company Solvus Global, and the company gives recycling factories solutions by offering them proprietary software to help them make decisions and

    Kevin Koczwara Updated: April 3, 2023
  • Framingham firm to use Australian battery technology on energy storage projects

    Kevin Koczwara March 30, 2023

    The clean and renewable technology companies reached an agreement where Redflow will supply the Framingham company with advanced non-lithium battery energy storage technology so Ameresco can install and use the storage devices for its projects.

    Kevin Koczwara March 30, 2023
  • MBTA says $31M needed to offer low-fare option

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service March 24, 2023

    MBTA officials estimated Thursday it would need at least a year and about $5 million to get a widespread low-income fare option off the ground, plus tens of millions of dollars per year to cover its recurring costs.

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service March 24, 2023
  • Ameresco to plant more trees in England

    Kevin Koczwara March 20, 2023

    Ameresco, Inc. has extended its partnership with the British charity Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust to plant 1,000 trees and help landscape the Yorkshire Dales National Park in England.

    Kevin Koczwara March 20, 2023
  • Westborough EV recycling firm extends Honda battery deal

    Kevin Koczwara March 9, 2023

    Ascend Elements and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. reached an agreement to extend their collaboration on recycled lithium-ion batteries for Honda’s electric vehicles in North America.

    Kevin Koczwara March 9, 2023
  • Teenagers press Mass. legislators on climate bills

    Sam Doran | State House News Service February 8, 2023

    Around 50 schoolkids descended on the State House Tuesday to lobby for their climate agenda, but before they started knocking on lawmakers' doors, one 16-year-old student told the crowd that their activism was hampered by the secret nature of the

    Sam Doran | State House News Service February 8, 2023
  • Stretch codes: More stringent building codes coming to Central Mass.

    Kevin Koczwara Updated: January 23, 2023

    With new building codes on the horizon, battles will be fought in the name of progress, as developers and various interest groups are hesitant to make sweeping changes.

    Kevin Koczwara Updated: January 23, 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
  • 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
  • Mass. gas prices down another 10 cents

    Michael P. Norton from State House News Service December 19, 2022

    The average gas price now sits at $3.44 a gallon. That is down 38 cents from just a month ago ($3.82), and 5 cents higher than this time last year.

    Michael P. Norton from State House News Service December 19, 2022
  • Wind energy developer seeks to scrap power agreements

    Chris Lisinski from State House News Service December 19, 2022

    Declaring that the largest offshore wind farm in the state's pipeline cannot be financed and built under existing contracts, Commonwealth Wind on Friday asked Massachusetts regulators to scrap the agreements the company reached with utilities and

    Chris Lisinski from State House News Service December 19, 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

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While shifting cultural norms in the business community have found hiring managers outwardly working toward hiring a more diverse staff, studies in the last few years by organizations like McKinsey & Co. and Regent University found women and people of color are promoted less frequently than their white male counterparts. This produces a dynamic where company leadership at many organizations remains dominated by white males even as the company's employees become more diversified.