Environment

At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what the following year would bring: a worldwide pandemic, an economic shutdown, the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, massive government intervention, empty offices, and the start of a recovery.

The state's top environmental protection official will be leaving come January to take over an interstate nonprofit focused on waste management.

Millis vertical farming company, Crop One Holdings, Inc. and New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have received a $1.5 million cost-matching grant from the nonprofit Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research in Washington D.C. to fund research of plant-based protein.

The average gas price now sits at $3.44 a gallon. That is down 38 cents from just a month ago ($3.82), and 5 cents higher than this time last year.

Declaring that the largest offshore wind farm in the state's pipeline cannot be financed and built under existing contracts, Commonwealth Wind on Friday asked Massachusetts regulators to scrap the agreements the company reached with utilities and reopen a new round of bidding.

Bright Planet Solar of Auburn is moving its New England Regional warehouse and sales office to Worcester, according to a Wednesday press release from Worcester real estate broker Kelleher and Sadowsky Associates, who brokered the company’s lease.

Clean energy technology companies that have promising products that could help the state meet its decarbonization goals but might not have the capital to make their ideas a reality have a new potential source of funding.

The average cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts has fallen by 10 cents in the last week, now at $3.66.

A commission that spent the last 11 months studying ways to help the state meet its emissions reduction requirements by shifting to cleaner buildings and addressing heating fuels that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions released its final recommendations Wednesday, but was not able to come to consensus around a timeline for phasing out new fossil fuel heating equipment.

Every state in New England is poised to receive an above-average injection of federal infrastructure money, funding that could play a key role after years where the region's rate of investment lagged other states, a new report concluded.