Environment

The Town of Boxborough, working with the Sudbury Valley Trustees and the Boxborough Conservation Trust, purchased 95 & 105 Sargent Road in Boxborough, for $1.25 million.

Voting for the WBJ’s 2023 Best of Business awards, which seeks to highlight institutions throughout Central Massachusetts based on reader votes, will close this coming Monday, Nov. 14.

A major offshore wind project in the Massachusetts pipeline is no longer viable and would not be able to move forward under the terms of contracts filed in May.

Real estate leads in Central Massachusetts, while professional services lead the statewide economy.

With signs proclaiming "Save Our Forests" and "Be Wise," activists from across the state convened outside the State House on Thursday afternoon before making their way to Gov. Charlie Baker's office to deliver a petition calling for a moratorium on state financing for large industrial solar projects.

The average price of a gallon of gasoline in Massachusetts has fallen 2 cents, down from last week’s $3.60, according to travel association AAA Northeast.

The Department of Public Utilities last week approved utility company investments totaling more than $470 million to modernize the electric distribution system in an attempt to improve reliability and accommodate what is expected to be a growing reliance on clean energy.

Ameresco, a renewable energy company based in Framingham, has begun construction on its new 131-acre solar energy plant in Hawaii.

Candidate for governor Maura Healey promises to help create a "whole climate corridor" in Massachusetts to help the world move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.

Weekday hourly Commuter Rail service will return to the Framingham/Worcester line out of Worcester’s Union Station starting on Oct. 17.