Environment

A home heating oil spill has proved costly for Wells Fargo Bank.

A week after being named the most energy efficient state in the country, Massachusetts took an additional step Monday to set ambitious, nation-leading energy efficiency goals for the next three years.

In one fell swoop, a 168-room hotel has done something that years of development efforts have been striving for: align Worcester's downtown with the words luxury, premiere and high-end.

TerraTherm of Gardner has been acquired by Cascade Drilling, a national company with a regional office in Northborough.

The planned closure of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth represents "a big step back" in meeting the state's emissions reduction and clean energy goals, and makes it "all the more important" that the Baker administration's hydroelectric and solar proposals move forward, Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton said Thursday.

A paper published Thursday by a team that includes a Worcester State University faculty member warns that rising sea levels over the next several decades could significantly impact coastal communities.

After accepting a new job or getting a promotion, you find yourself in the manager's seat. But before you pop that family photo atop your desk or locate the corporate washroom, spend some time reflecting on myths and missteps that could be out there to trip you up as a new manager. Here are three things to be aware of as you get used to your new role:

Lawmakers appear poised to raise the amount of reimbursement money available through the underground storage tank cleanup fund, which is fed by motorists filling up at Bay State gas pumps.

Tantara Corp. of Worcester ranks 25th on the 2015 Inner City 100, a list of the inner-city businesses in the U.S. with the fastest-growing revenue.

Marlborough residents and city leaders on Tuesday shared stories of well-manicured backyards turned into fields of testing wells, homes placed under environmental restrictions and the continuous loss of home equity as a result of a 2012 gasoline leak.