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Developers say it clears the way for a new era of operations at the site's deepwater heavy-lift port.

Efforts to save the environment may actually harm it instead.

The company that owns the South Coast site of a former coal-burning power plant on Monday outlined plans to transform the 300-acre parcel into a clean energy center.

The view from atop the Braga Bridge is about to get much different, as the dismantling of the Brayton Point towers in Somerset has begun.

SOMERSET - Consistently one of the state's largest polluters, Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset is powering down for the last time tonight. According to the Herald News, the 1,488 megawatt plant will be taken offline at midnight tonight...

After many months of backroom wheeling and dealing the legislative leadership and the Baker Administration have reached an agreement in principle on an energy bill. While the final details must still be hammered out it is clear that the powerful green energy lobby has won the day with the bill introduced on Monday in the Massachusetts House of Representatives...

National Grid is announcing rate increases up to 37% more than a customer's typical bill. NStar customers may be in for similar increases as well. NStar spokesman Mike Durand tells WBSM News with more coal-fired power plants across the region closing, the demand for natural gas is quite high, but the infrastructure needs serious updates to meet the demand...

Environmental activists are planning a six-day march from a Massachusetts coal plant to Cape Cod to push for a quicker transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

A new technology turning trash into energy is being developed here on the Southcoast.