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By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — With utility rates skyrocketing well past where they were last year, and the increased costs of food, medicine and housing, the burden can quickly become too much for those living on a fixed income.Cynthia Tarail, director of the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — In hopes of reducing Frontier Regional School’s reliance on fossil fuels, the Deerfield Energy Committee plans to rally its counterparts to work with the school on green planning.Two representatives of Deerfield’s Energy Committee...

By COLIN A. YOUNG

New England grid operators expect demand for and use of electricity to hit their highest points yet this winter on as bone-chilling cold takes over Friday and Saturday, but they also expect they will have more than enough power available to meet that...

By COLIN A. YOUNG

The day before he resigned as chair of the Department of Public Utilities last week, Matthew Nelson responded to nearly 100 state lawmakers who had written him with concerns about winter energy bill increases to tell them that the gas bill reductions...

By DEVLIN SELMAN

Not all industrial solar arrays are a “sunny” great thing. Large solar companies such as Nexamp offer “too good to be true” incentives for landowners to lease their land and build a solar “farm” to capture the sun’s energy so they can do “good!” We...

By FRAN RYAN

EASTHAMPTON — As the world tries to combat global climate change and find workable clean alternatives to energy production, a small Easthampton company says it has a patented new way of creating electricity, one that could revolutionize how power is...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

WILLIAMSBURG — Attorney General Maura Healey filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a Pennsylvania developer alleging “irreparable harm” caused by polluting of the West Branch Mill River and damage to more than two acres of protected wetlands.The lawsuit...

By JACQUELYN VOGHEL

AMHERST — In what researchers are describing as an unintentional discovery, a team at the University of Massachusetts has developed new technology capable of generating electricity from moisture in the air.The device, called an Air-gen, is “a totally...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — A man suffered minor injuries Wednesday when he crashed his vehicle through a large bush and into the side of the Whiting Energy Fuels building off Barrett Street. The man, whom officials did not identify, was taken to Cooley Dickinson...

By LAUREL DEMKOVICH

SANDISFIELD — Massachusetts State Police arrested 22 protesters Saturday, including 20 from the Pioneer Valley, after police said they trespassed into a restricted area at a natural gas pipeline construction site in Sandisfield and refused to...

By AMANDA DRANE

SANDISFIELD — Climate activists continue to stand their ground against preliminary construction of a pipeline in the Otis State Forest.Police arrested six more over the weekend, including five from the Pioneer Valley. All members of the Sugar Shack...