Jennifer McDermott, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Jeremy DeBenedictis, president of Alterra Energy, stands in the storage area of shredded plastics his company receives from recycling facilities in their facility in Akron, Ohio, on Sept. 8. “Our mission is to solve plastic pollution,” said DeBenedictis, company president. “That is not just a tag line. We all truly want to solve plastic pollution.”

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Advanced recycling: Plastic crisis solution or distraction?

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressDecember 13, 2022

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the planet’s oceans, beaches and lands — recycle it, chemically.Chemical recycling typically uses heat or chemical solvents to break down…

Offshore turbines at Amager Stand near Copenhagen, on Feb. 15. 2016. Denmark will increase a planned offshore wind capacity in the Baltic Sea to 3 gigawatts and hook it up to the German grid which will be a step toward weaning Europe off its reliance on Russian gas. The deal was announced Aug. 29 in Copenhagen.

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Hiring for offshore wind ramps up

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressSeptember 4, 2022

Hay farmer Milan Adams stands in a dry hay field near a wind sock, left, in Exeter, R.I., Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Adams said in prior years it rained in the spring. This year, he said, the dryness started in March, and April was so dry he was nervous about his first cut of hay. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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NE farmers challenged by severe drought

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressAugust 15, 2022

FILE - A Store For Rent sign is displayed at a retail property in Chicago, on June 20, 2020. As much as 20% of a federal pandemic relief program intended to help small businesses weather the COVID-19 outbreak is believed to have gone to fraudsters, while some 1.6 million applications for the loans may have been approved without even being evaluated. The program overseen by the U.S. Small Business Administration is one of the key targets of a Tuesday, June 14, 2022, congressional...

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Lawmaker: US failed to stop COVID loan fraud

by Jennifer McDermott Associated Press, and Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressJune 14, 2022

FILE— A sign warning of radioactive materials is seen on a fence around a nuclear reactor containment building on Monday, April 26, 2021, a few days before it stopped generating electricity at Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, N.Y. The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to save nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuke plants

by Jennifer McDermott Associated Press, and Matthew Daly Associated PressApril 19, 2022

FILE - The first boxes of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are loaded into a truck for shipment from the McKesson facility in Shepherdsville, Ky., Monday, March 1, 2021. As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the millions that have already gone to waste. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, Pool, File)

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As demand wanes, states left with huge vaccine stockpile

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressMarch 3, 2022

In this photo provided by Bob Van Wert, Tom Randele, whose real name according to authorities was Ted Conrad, tends to golf clubs in September 2012 in Ayer, Mass. Conrad, a former Ohio bank teller-turned-thief, lived for decades under a different name in suburban Boston. Conrad died in May 2021.

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Family man’s 50-year secret: He was a fugitive, too

by John Seewer Associated Press, and Jennifer McDermott Associated PressDecember 31, 2021

Leanna Arcila, 7, is licked by Watson, a therapy dog with the Pawtucket police department, as she receives her COVID-19 vaccination from Dr. Eugenio Fernandez at Nathanael Greene Elementary School in Pawtucket, R.I., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Even as the U.S. reaches a COVID-19 milestone of roughly 200 million fully-vaccinated people, infections and hospitalizations are spiking, including in highly-vaccinated pockets of the country like New England. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Cases spike as US reaches vaccine milestone

by Sophia Tareen Associated Press, and Jennifer McDermott Associated PressDecember 8, 2021

Manfred Steiner, who earned his Ph.D. in physics from Brown University at the age of 89, displays his doctorate thesis on his laptop at his home in East Providence, R.I., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. After retiring from his career in medicine in 2000, Steiner pursued his dream of earning a doctorate in physics. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

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At 89, man realizes dream of being physicist

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressNovember 11, 2021

In this Nov. 18, 2019, photo, Sportsbook shift manager Stuart Norsell, right, assists a patron, left, in the sports betting area of Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I. Legalized sports betting's rapid march across the U.S. could face some bigger tests in 2020. Less than two years after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling opened the door to sportsbooks outside Nevada, they have been legalized in states that are home to about one-third of the nation's population. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Sports betting’s rapid expansion faces more tests in 2020

by Jennifer McDermott Associated Press, and Geoff Mulvihill Associated PressDecember 18, 2019