Unlike large hydropower dams, where there’s often serious political and emotional resistance to removal, conservationists are finding many landowners of…
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Imported Solar Panels Could Face Tariff, Increasing Costs To Consumers
The International Trade Commission ruled Friday that inexpensive, imported solar panels have harmed U.S.-based panel manufacturers. In New England,…
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TGIF: 23 Things To Know About Rhode Island Politics & Media
Nothing like a long afternoon-into-night at the Rhode Island Statehouse to add a dash of September excitement, right? We’ve got it all covered, so…
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R.I.P. Judge Walter R. Stone
UPDATE: Services for Judge Stone: Calling hours, Wednesday October 4 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Perry-McStay Funeral Home in East Providence. Memorial…
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Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ Smithfield Plant Closure A Surprise To RI Officials
Pharmaceutical company Alexion announced Tuesday it will close its plant in Smithfield, taking 250 jobs with it. The Smithfield site made a drug known…
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RI Suspect In Custody After 70-Year-Old Woman Shot In NH Hospital
A 70-year-old woman is dead and her son is in custody after New Hampshire police responded to reports of an active shooter Tuesday at the Dartmouth…
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Gigantic Batteries Help Grow Renewable Energy In New England
For more than half a century, a massive, oil-fired plant has been churning out electricity from an island in the heart of Maine’s Casco Bay, where…
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MA Red Cross Readies Volunteers For Texas
Several dozen Red Cross volunteers from Massachusetts are already working in Texas to help victims of Hurricane Harvey, with more on the way.
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‘Hit First And Worst’: Region’s Communities Of Color Brace For Climate Change Impacts
The consequences of climate change, experts say, will disproportionately affect low-income communities and communities of color.
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NE Residents Help In Houston Relief Efforts
Emergency response crews from New England are heading down to Texas, as rains and flooding continue to devastate coastal parts of the state.
