Environment

The average price of regular gasoline in Massachusetts continues to fall, dropping to $3.49 per gallon, down eight cents from last week.

The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in Massachusetts continues to drop even further, reaching $3.57 on Monday, down 11 cents from last week.

Seaman Paper Co. in Gardner has partnered with Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, and Italian organization, One Ocean Foundation to fund research and conservation efforts.

The City of Worcester has been granted nearly $1.2 million for research on the city’s drainage system and the impact of climate change on the city.

A new technology company is coming to Marlborough, as part of its expansion into the electric vehicle market.

Worcester Business Journal has hired Kevin Koczwara, a longtime Worcester journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone, as its newest staff writer.

New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston received a $70,559 grant from Massachusetts’ Greening the Gateway Cities Program to plant 100 trees in Worcester and conduct outreach to residents, businesses, and non-profit organizations in the Main South, Grafton Hill, and Bell Hill neighborhoods.

SK ecoplant, the environmental division of Korean holding company SK Inc., has made a $50 million investment in Westborough’s Ascend Elements to help commercialize the firm’s trademarked Hydro-to-Cathode direct precursor synthesis process technology, Ascend announced on Thursday.

The Fitchburg Redevelopment Authority replaced 300 light fixtures with LEDs at its business center, Putnam Place in Fitchburg, which along with other changes will save 113,000 kilowatt hours annually.

Two researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have been awarded $347,843 by the U.S. Navy to develop a computational model that processes data from underwater drones to estimate the source and concentration of contaminants in oceans.