Eversource Energy has reached an agreement to buy the Massachusetts natural gas assets of Columbia Gas for $1.1 billion, a deal announced hours after federal prosecutors ordered Columbia Gas to cease Bay State operations and pay a $53-million fine in connection with organizational failures.
Columbia Gas of Massachusetts is expected to plead guilty to federal charges of violating the Pipeline Safety Act that will be brought against the Westborough company today.
Massachusetts lagged behind the U.S. solar power industry job growth rate in 2019, but its solar workforce rose 1.9 percent to 10,400 workers, according to a new report.
One bill filed last year by Sen. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester), would require any public company headquartered in Mass. to have at least one female board member by the end of 2021.
Framingham energy firm Ameresco has secured a $58-million U.S. Navy contract to implement an energy resiliency project at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.