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Mass. approves lowest NSTAR rates since ’04
BOSTON – The Mass. Department of Public Utilities has approved NSTAR’s lowest electric rates since 2004. more
5/28/12
Town seeks answers to beach erosion
With beach erosion threatening to cut a piece of South Kingstown from the mainland, the Coastal Resources Management Council has approved a $700,000 plan to allow the town to build a retaining wall along Matunuck Beach Road. But the plan is merely a stopgap to allow the town and residents to find a long-term solution to a problem threatening to wash away businesses and homes in coastal communities across the state. more
Mosaico’s brownfield cleanup gets $200K boost
Diana Campbell, executive director of the Mosaico Business & Community Development Corp. in Bristol, and Diane M. Williamson, director of community development for the town, are hopeful a $200,000 brownfield-cleanup grant will help ensure the firm’s site at the Bristol Industrial Park will soon be put to good use. more
Demand for fuel efficiency spurs R.I. auto sales
During the first quarter of 2012, earning reports for the “Big Three” American motor companies, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, showed that Americans are standing behind their automobile makers, and the Ocean State followed suit in the country’s rekindled love affair with the iconic, American-made automobile. more
New view at India Point Park
Dassault Systemes SIMULIA Corp. volunteer George Scarlat, foreground, works with David Riley, rear, co-chair, Friends of India Point Park, on June 8 to clear underbrush and dead trees on the Seekonk River bank at India Point Park in Providence. This is the fourth-straight year Simulia volunteers have worked on the project, which has opened up water views along the shoreline path in the park. more
6/18/12
America’s Cup series in green-racing program
Sailing off the blue-green coast of Newport has become a little “greener,” thanks to the environmental commitment of several sailing organizations to a national program with local origins. more
Grants feeding growth of R.I. wind turbines
Wind turbines have sprouted up across the state, in many cases due to federal and state grants providing hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover capital costs upfront, all at no cost to the proposer. more
Building relationships key to nonprofit fundraising
Ask around at the next group gathering you happen to attend and you’ll likely find that most everyone will agree the state’s waterways are deserving of protection from pollution and their surrounding wildlife should be saved from hazardous plastic. more
Firm leaves no stones left unturned
Like many professionals, Robert C. Atwood enjoyed his work but had the desire to have his own business. “The company I was working for at the time wasn’t interested in pursuing the hazardous-waste world, so I started on my own,” he said. more
Trucking companies get emissions funding
BOSTON – Twenty-nine private truckers and food-processing companies, including several in Bristol County, Mass., will receive $817,896 in federal and other grants to install technologies to reduce the diesel exhaust emissions of 63 long-haul trucks and diesel engines serving local wholesale markets and warehouses under MassCleanDiesel, a state-sponsored grant program. more
7/2/12
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