Environment

Three companies contracted for a 2018 project at a Fitchburg State University dorm will pay up to $325,000 combined in civil penalties for failing to properly remove and dispose of asbestos, or asbestos-containing material.

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 Legislature's committee votes.

Samantha McDonald has risen to partner at Bowditch following an untraditional career path.

The Massachusetts Attorney General earlier in January reopened the case where Peterson Oil delivered heating fuel to the state allegedly containing too much biodiesel.

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.

Climate and environmental activists made clear Wednesday that they feel they have a real ally in Gov. Maura Healey and sent a direct message to the new administration's climate chief: it's time to get to work.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Chicago investment firm Harrison Street announced a partnership on Tuesday aimed at reducing WPI’s carbon footprint by expanding energy-conservation measures, improving WPI’s power plant, and developing sustainable energy technologies for the WPI campus.

After making affordability a major theme of her campaign, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday that her administration's focus on clean energy and combatting climate change goes hand-in-hand with helping Bay Staters deal with rising costs of living.

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. 

A 1,000 megawatt onshore wind project planned for northern Maine and an associated transmission build-out "would provide benefits to Massachusetts and the region," the Mass. Department of Energy Resources said as it determined that it makes sense to have Bay State ratepayers cover 40 percent of the project costs as part of a multi-state clean energy effort.