Worcester City Manager Edward Augustus has requested the City Council sign off on $300,000 worth of eminent domain takings that will help protect the city's watershed.
Subsidiaries of Saint-Gobain Corp. have settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and will invest in environmental upgrades, the EPA announced Tuesday.
The largest regional transit authority in Massachusetts has purchased three 40-foot buses that produce no tailpipe emissions from the company that sold similar buses to Worcester in 2013.
The Gardner Redevelopment Authority and the City of Gardner are undertaking a $1.8-million cleanup of a former metals facility as the groups continue to prepare the area for commercial investment.
Hopkinton's commercial-scale solar company Solect Energy announced Tuesday it is expanding into Connecticut and has hired a new director of business development.