Environment

Worcester Business Journal on Monday hired an award-winning Massachusetts business journalist to lead its digital operations.

As Massachusetts regulators map out the state's role in reducing global warming, environmental advocates and electricity generators both urged consideration for how new rules could affect power plant emissions outside state borders.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection on Friday said it assessed a $32,000 penalty against Illinois tanker truck firm Atlas SN. for a diesel fuel spill at 81 Main St. in Douglas.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection announced Tuesday it has assessed a $21,410 penalty against Rutland AD for violating air pollution regulations at its Jordan Farms Organics Recyclery.

Solar energy traders would be about the only ones losing out under the Baker Administration's proposed new plan for incentivizing the solar industry, according to state officials who say the plan will benefit solar developers, solar investors and utility ratepayers.

Electric autonomous vehicles could shuttle passengers around the state with no one monitoring the controls under new legislation that would authorize and regulate the burgeoning technology, seeking to limit "zombie cars" and extract environmental benefits from innovation.

Worcester's industrial building are 40-percent empty, as landlords can't reconcile costly upgrades with the impact on their tax bill, especially for small manufacturers.

There are many blocks needed to build a successful business. These blocks are dynamic and contain specific infrastructures and characteristics, but fit together in a cohesive manner.

At a 2016 energy forum hosted by The New England Council, Gordon van Welie, CEO of ISO New England – our region's power grid operator – described New England's electric reliability this coming winter as precarious.

Too frequently we're in a business situation where one party is waiting on the other party to do something, decide something or take some action.