Jennifer McDermott

At Ashawaug Farm in Hopkinton, Narragansett growers are preserving heritage crops while navigating cuts to federal programs that helped small and tribal producers

Tree canopy gaps mirror income divides in Newport, as conservationists race to restore native trees and lost federal funding threatens efforts to expand “tree equity” in the city’s North End

A $300 million payment dispute and a 2024 blade failure fuel a high-stakes legal fight over the future of the project

Judge Patti Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C. that challenged Trump’s Day One order that paused leasing and permitting for wind energy projects

The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development, the latest step to suppress the…

Rhode Island joins 16 other states in a legal challenge to Trump-era wind energy restrictions, arguing the federal permitting freeze threatens coastal projects and the state’s clean energy goals